American - Actor | January 28, 1936 -
I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
Alan Alda
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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. 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've never tried to manipulate my image.
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If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.
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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.
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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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My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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'Never Have Your Dog Stuffed' is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years.
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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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Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.
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No, I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it.
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