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 ALDABe brave enough to live creatively.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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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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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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I’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
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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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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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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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But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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