I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn’t know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
ALAN ALDAAs I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Jean Paul Sartre says in “No Exit” that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
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As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what’s personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn’t ring true.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can’t put into words. If I could put it into words, then it wouldn’t be a performance. And if I do put it into words, as I play it, I start to get boxed in by those words.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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