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 ALDAMy mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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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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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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I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
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I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
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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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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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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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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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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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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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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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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 was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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