Alan Alda Quotes
You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.
Quotes to Explore
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Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.
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As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
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I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.
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I follow Elle Fanning's career. I really like to follow actors who are a similar age to me. Just to see what they're up to.
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I love actors.
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I think there is a lot of space for people to love who they love, and a lot of space for actors to carve a niche for themselves.
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Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.
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Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.
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There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.
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My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.
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There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor or actress, by the end, theyve forgotten that, and they leave going, Wow - what an amazing play.
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Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.
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In film, movies schedules are based on three things: actors availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place youre going to film in.
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Unfortunately, I feel as actors we have to fight for the right to really go in as many directions as possible.
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Enforcement efforts should focus on aggressive prosecution of bad actors under existing anti-fraud laws rather than imposing costly and largely ineffective procedural requirements on all public companies.
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As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.
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I've been training as an actor for six years. Nobody goes to acting school for six years. I mean, the college course is only four years! I absolutely trained.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating. There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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When I'm sad, she comes to me with a thousand smiles.
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It's obviously a learning experience for the governor, but it's also a chance for the DOD to learn how the state corrections facilities are run. It's an opportunity for them to learn how we run our prison system.
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Please forgive me, I know not what I do. Please forgive me, I can't stop loving you.
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It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe.
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We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do.
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You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.
