It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.
ALAN ALDAThe best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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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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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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It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
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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?
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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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When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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