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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.

Alan Alda

artists try to say things that can’t be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling.
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I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
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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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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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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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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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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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The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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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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Everybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.
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For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.
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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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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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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.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
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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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This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
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If you know what you’re looking for, that’s all you’ll get – what’s previously known. But when you’re open to what’s possible, you get something new – that’s creativity.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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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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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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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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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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