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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.

Alan Alda

I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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Carry First Home Month Most Old Onstage Six Stage Time
I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
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Advice Director Extra Final Kind Person Student Word Writer
It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
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Figure Good Life Out Somebody Story Try
If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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Connections Listening Waiting
When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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Alien Body Kid Leave Thirteen Turn Until Twenty
I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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Brought Longer Religious
I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
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Atheist Guess Infidel Possibly Unbeliever Uncertain Uncomfortable World
I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
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Back Carry Cash Forward Gun Over Show
We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
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Acute Animal Awareness Different Highly Other Scientist Social Successful
I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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Actor Before Lead Nominate Part Support Twice
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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Character Find Put Way Word
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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Behind Better Create Do Leave Place Think Want
When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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Another General Kill Laugh One People
During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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Curious Day First Inmate Long Outside Stream Take
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.
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Badly Box Corner Form Get Listen Out Question Step
Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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Actor Another Everyone Job Open Personal Right Think Way

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