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In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’

Alan Alda

In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
ALAN ALDA

Again Experience Heal Laugher Loss Lost Midst Person Something Tragedy
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
That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
ALAN ALDA

Fact Frame Immutable Reference School Study Taught Think Truthiness
One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
ALAN ALDA

Back Believer Day Go Longer One Realize
I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
ALAN ALDA

Brought Longer Religious
It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
ALAN ALDA

Figure Good Life Out Somebody Story Try
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
It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
ALAN ALDA

Famous Happy Necessary Rich
I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
ALAN ALDA

Any More Much Part Really Size Worry
All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
ALAN ALDA

All Thing Come Expect Meaning Sometimes
I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
ALAN ALDA

Atheist Guess Infidel Possibly Unbeliever Uncertain Uncomfortable World
Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
ALAN ALDA

Change Eventually Found Listen Radical Think Willingness
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 ALDA

Actor Authentic Character Defeat Fun Make Play Want
Be brave enough to live creatively.
ALAN ALDA

Brate Creative Enough
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.
ALAN ALDA

Club Glee High Musical School Thrown Time Tune
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

In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’

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In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’

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