It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn’t look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy – I mean Jimmy as the character.
ALAN ALDARemarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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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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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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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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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.
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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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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
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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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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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How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?
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The 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.
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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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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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