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Alan Alda

When I started out as an acto...

When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as important as what happens between me and the other person. And listening is what lets it happen. It's almost always the other person who causes you to say what you say next. You don't have to figure out how you'll say it. You have to listen so simply, so innocently, that the other person brings about a change in you that makes you say it and informs the way you say it.

Alan Alda 142 quotes
Alan Alda

Originality is unexplored ter...

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

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Alan Alda

Nothing important was ever ac...

Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah. Don't ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don't doubt yourself.

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Alan Alda

In the midst of the sense of ...

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.

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Alan Alda

My father sang well, and he w...

My father sang well, and he was a handsome man. When he walked down the street, people sometimes mistook him for Cary Grant and asked for his autograph.

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Alan Alda

I think I look better in a su...

I think I look better in a suit than a loincloth. So that may define some of the parts I play.

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Alan Alda

I'm an angry person, angrier ...

I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.

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Alan Alda

My background is on the stage...

My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.

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Alan Alda

To do a musical takes a treme...

To do a musical takes a tremendous amount of energy because you have to act and sing at the same time. And everything has to be precise. Because you can't forget the lyrics because the band keeps playing, you know, and you're under a certain amount of pressure.

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Alan Alda

What heartens me is to see '3...

What heartens me is to see '30 Rock' on the air. It makes me laugh from my gut, which I really like to do.

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Alan Alda

It's not an epitaph. I felt I...

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. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

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Alan Alda

What I always wanted to get s...

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer. Not as somebody with a particular idea to sell, or something like that.

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Alan Alda

I hated high school. It was a...

I hated high school. It was a prison.

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Alan Alda

You know what my earliest mem...

You know what my earliest memories are? Going from one burlesque town to another. My father was in burlesque.

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Alan Alda

It's a funny feeling to work ...

It's a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleagues and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children.

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Alan Alda

I don't really worry about th...

I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. 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.

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Alan Alda

I don't watch that much TV, s...

I don't watch that much TV, so I can't compare one show to another. When I watch television, I watch people talking to one another usually or a science show where they show me microbes, you know. Microbes actually communicate quite a bit, and so there's a lot of talking going on.

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Alan Alda

Any play is hard to write, an...

Any play is hard to write, and plays are getting harder and harder to get on the stage.

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Alan Alda

I really don't like plays or ...

I really don't like plays or movies that service propaganda.

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Alan Alda

How can I ever hope to commun...

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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