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 ALDAI 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.
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If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I’ve thought, ‘Why don’t I just act on that impulse?’ But then, I’ve never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I’ve never hit anybody for fun.
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Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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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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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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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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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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Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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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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What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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Kids are natural scientists.
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It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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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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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed.
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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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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’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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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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