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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.

Alan Alda

A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
ALAN ALDA

Actor Great Herself Itself Lucky Performance Really Transform
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.
ALAN ALDA

Awful Coincidence Hand Incredible Knife Lock Other People Several Somebody Thousand Unjustify
So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
ALAN ALDA

Answer Campaign Church Day Every Government Question Religion
Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
ALAN ALDA

Heaven Just Puny Realize Star Swirl Tiny Wonder Yourself
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.
ALAN ALDA

Character Find Put Way Word
Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
ALAN ALDA

Act Care Curiosity Eat Face Name Nothing Ordinary People Recognize Simply Target Virtue Wear
When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
ALAN ALDA

Alien Body Kid Leave Thirteen Turn Until Twenty
It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
ALAN ALDA

Clear Have Longer Onto Something Really Time
I’m greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn’t do it, that somehow I can deliver.
ALAN ALDA

Afraid Deliver Greedy Hard Know Satisfied Someone Something
Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
ALAN ALDA

Come Discovery Great Serendipity Some Thing Understand
Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
ALAN ALDA

Atheistic Believer Book Identify Someone Wikipedia Wrote
For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
ALAN ALDA

Fly Human Magic Physics
You’ll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
ALAN ALDA

Brain Everything Figure Hand Influence Less Money Out Over Prejudice Soul
It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
ALAN ALDA

Always Better Smart Wise
But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
ALAN ALDA

Careful Internet Like Mechanical Often Something Transformation
If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
ALAN ALDA

Connections Listening Waiting

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