Alan Alda
Related ARI GRAYNOR I get to delve into some of the most creative experience I've had as an actor on 'Mr. Robot.... RAMI MALEK RYAN REYNOLDS RAHUL DRAVID There's sort of a very symbiotic thing that happens on good TV shows with great writers, which i... LUCAS NEFF A lot of actors would tell you that they'd rather play the villain than the hero. When you'r... TOM ELLIS One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'H... RANDALL MUNROE DEYTH BANGER 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' I did an episode on, and that's one of my favori... ALEXANDRA DADDARIO Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'... ZACH WOODS JULIA CHILD It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a... AARON TVEIT TYRONE POWER Some characters think more like me than others; some think more like my dad or someone else. It cert... WATT KEY I've always sort of felt that, for me, everything's so much more about the music than the ac... CHAD CHANNING I think there's a tendency for actors like myself, and I don't mean to generalize myself, bu... IDRIS ELBA That's one of my problems is that there are so many songs to sing that I sort of get indecisive ... ALISON ELLIOTT AJ LEE TODD BARRY Thank God, I have sort of a pan-European accent rather than Russian, which doesn't sound very pl... YULIYA SNIGIR STEVE JOBS RUSSELL PETERS I think a lot of people settle with comfort. I've kinda pushed my whole life not to do that. The... AUBREY O'DAY There are certain people who are supposed to be race car drivers, and I've got that. I've go... ROBERT CARRADINE I think the joy of any soap opera is it is always there. You are allowed into this world for a littl... AMANDA DONOHOE I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstra... WARREN CHRISTOPHER Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU MAGGIE Q MARGOT ROBBIE TADANOBU ASANO JAMES FRANCO One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in te... KEN ADAM There's a darkness under 'The Hangover' because ultimately there's a missing person ... TODD PHILLIPS KENNETH BRANAGH KEN LIU CHERRY JONES I've been watching a lot of A&E's 'Intervention.' I know that's sort of depr... VANESSA BAYER It's a funny thing when you think you're dead. You're not terrified of it anymore. There... DAVID LANGE There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do thin... TAYLOR SCHILLING Throughout my career I've played a lot of parts that might've been played by a man. They'... EDIE FALCO Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON STEPHEN COLBERT I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, bu... CIARAN HINDS I've never had any problem with criticism. I've given a lot, and I've copped a lot. But ... JOAN KIRNER MARISA MILLER You know, this is really a way of cooking. It's not my way. I'm deeply influenced by the Med... SALLY SCHNEIDER It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've go... DAMIAN LEWIS Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't w... GABRIELLE UNION When somebody uses a word as a genre distinction, all it really does is trigger certain experiences,... GERALD CLAYTON DANNY STRONG I've been on a lot of shows that nobody cared about. JAMES DENTON I've often noticed that there is a moment when a man develops enough confidence and ease in a re... EVE BABITZ For some reason I've been labeled that and it's fine, but there are a lot of other artists t... ALAN JACKSON What I learned was that celebrities come to me with a preconceived notion. They think I'm fun, o... VICKI LAWRENCE I think the problem I have with films is that, because there's so much hype around them, they be... HANS MATHESON There's a lot of very funny people I'd love to work with that I've never met, of course.... DICK VAN DYKE The cool thing about Snapchat is you can get a lot of news on there now. There's CNN, ESPN, and ... KLAY THOMPSON I feel that, for each show I've been doing, there's a character that dominates. Then in the ... MARCEL DZAMA RICHARD DAWKINS TATIANA MASLANY BOB DYLAN I've noticed that a lot of people in film always seem interested in music videos, like it's ... JACK ANTONOFF Any actor will tell you there's more of a schedule to doing a television show. That's why yo... JASON MARSDEN EDWARD SNOWDEN I think it's great to see how they've grown up, not just as actors but as people. They'r... DAVID HEYMAN Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER CHUCK PALAHNIUK There's a lot of successful procedural shows that are out there. A lot of them are very successf... JIMMY SMITS The fact that ticket prices are way too expensive, and there's only one bunch of people going to... MARTIN MCDONAGH Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation. BARRY LEVINSON MANUEL PUIG MARCEL DUCHAMP I love actors, and I love the casting process. It's funny, like, some writers don't like act... BRYAN FULLER HUGH LAURIE LARRY WILMORE KRISTEN STEWART CHRIS HARDWICK MATT DILLON CLINT EASTWOOD I've worked with actors before where I was like, this is not working, and then I've seen the... VINCENT KARTHEISER I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's ... PATRICK DUFFY ELVIS COSTELLO I think one of the funniest things about '30 Rock' is that Liz Lemon is sort of like Buster ... CRISTIN MILIOTI It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON BARBARA WALTERS DINAH SHORE TIM DALY You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on... DANNY MCBRIDE BARRY EISLER I think the reason I love 'Antiques Roadshow' is that it is sort of like the lottery. There&... LARA SPENCER There are so many great actors, but I really have a lot of respect for Johnny Depp. I've seen a ... ED SPELEERS YARA SHAHIDI DONALD TRUMP, JR. I think that debut albums are supposed to sound sort of raw. You don't want to record 'Sgt. ... TAYLOR HAWKINS The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is ... MAE WHITMAN I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am be... ROONEY MARA There's something about some of my favorite musicals that they put me in a sort of heightened st... DAMIEN CHAZELLE STEVE-O I've had times where I've joked, like, 'I'm going to move to Vermont and become a pa... KATE MICUCCI DIANE LANE
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Non c'è niente che faccia più impazzire la gente che vederti fe... ALDA MERINI If you want to look good on the outside, you must also feel good and be good on the inside. Our prac... ALDA PILISZEK I decided to start Spa Nova to integrate that with a little bit of the medicine. [Ted] decided a cou... ALDA PILISZEK At that time, Ted was 23 years old, a doctor at London University-Kings College of Medicine. He was ... ALDA PILISZEK SpazioALDA MERINI I don't like Paradise,ALDA MERINI Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm. ALAN ALAN WATTS I think most people have that crazy uncle they sit at Thanksgiving dinner with: someone they disagre... ALAN COLMES ALAN PERLIS ALAN STERN ALAN BENNETT ALAN BENNETT ALAN BENNETT ALAN BENNETT ALAN BENNETT ALAN BENNETT ALAN BENNETT ALAN BENNETT ALAN BENNETT ALAN BENNETT ALAN BENNETT ALAN BENNETT ALAN BENNETT ALAN BENNETT ALAN BENNETT ALAN BENNETT ALAN BENNETT ALAN BENNETT ALAN BENNETT If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny. ALAN KING ALAN TURING ALAN TURING ALAN TURING ALAN TURING ALAN TURING ALAN WALKER Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law. ALAN BULLOCK ALAN WATTS ALAN PERLIS ALAN KAY I'll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity to industry and commerce. ALAN AUTRY ALAN MOORE ALAN MOORE ALAN WATTS ALAN DERSHOWITZ ALAN DERSHOWITZ When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive. ALAN PATON ALAN GREENSPAN ALAN BALL Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie. ALAN PARKER ALAN BALL ALAN GREENSPAN ALAN WATTS ALAN MOORE ALAN KAY If we don't re-charge the American Brand, all future challenges - economic, social and political... ALAN SIEGEL ALAN RICKMAN ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in t... ALAN KEYES Arsenal paid a lot of money for him a few years ago but he found it difficult to claim a first-team ... ALAN CURBISHLEY It was a great night for us and a great achievement. Who knows what will happen in the next round. I... ALAN CURBISHLEY There has not really been a lot going on for Stephan, he has not had many saves to make. I want to h... ALAN CURBISHLEY There may be players wanting to leave, and obviously I have a surplus in the forward area, so this w... ALAN CURBISHLEY I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises. ALAN CUMMING Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over? ALAN CUMMING It's a sort of anti-Broadway musical. It's odd, disjointed and spiky. ALAN CUMMING Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what... ALAN CUMMING It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves. ALAN CUMMING It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another. ALAN CUMMING When Brian went by me, I thought he was some guy that jumped on the course. ALAN CULPEPPER In Athens, I was running in long sleeves and pants in the summertime to acclimate as much as I could... ALAN CULPEPPER ALAN LIGHTMAN At this point, our office is going to prepare to go to trial again, ... We believe the jury will com... ALAN CURRY We haven't made a decision yet. I think there's several options open to us and that's something work... ALAN CURRY Andrea Yates knew precisely what she was doing, ... She knew that it was wrong. ALAN CURRY He has come here to gain experience, and nothing can happen until December anyway. I believe Gary Ne... ALAN CURBISHLEY I left some of the boys out completely to have a rest, ALAN CURBISHLEY We moved in straight away, and although he was publicly linked with other clubs, we were always conf... ALAN CURBISHLEY Danny is a player we have been tracking for some time, but he only became available last week, ALAN CURBISHLEY Claus had one year remaining on his contract and made it clear that he didn't wish to renew his deal... ALAN CURBISHLEY The player wanted to come to us and we are very pleased to welcome him. ALAN CURBISHLEY We don't believe isolated testimony on cross examination by one of our witnesses had such an impact ... ALAN CURRY We are hopeful that we can now finally place our complete focus upon going to trial. ALAN CURRY The case has already been reversed once, so we want to make sure we proceed correctly and appropriat... ALAN CURRY I would anticipate this case is going to have to be retried. ALAN CURRY It's just a matter of our blokes lifting their game. They haven't been playing to their usual standa... ALAN DAVIDSON We?re pleased with the vitality we're seeing in the UK market. Our company accounted for close to a ... ALAN CURTIS One can always hope, but I worry this will be a repeat of that experience. After the 1960 riots, the... ALAN CURTIS [Some found Bush's words reassuring. Others worried that they would not resonate far into the future... ALAN CURTIS But the major mistake is to take the census report as a one-year phenomenon. This is the fourth stra... ALAN CURTIS If anything, the numbers out of the Census Bureau underestimate the problem of poverty in America, ALAN CURTIS This is an unusual case, but the state has previously shown that the defendant knew that her conduct... ALAN CURRY It is kind-of the same issue, but they have added a couple of different elements to it, a couple of ... ALAN CURRY The case was reversed on appeal. She's gotten a new trial. She's gained the relief she's entitled to... 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I think there's a culture in Rajasthan Royals that has been there before I got here, so I've... 
I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. 
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I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience. 
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Ideally I'd like to be working steadily as an actor: movies, a TV series, that sort of thing. I&... 
Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don&#... 
There's nothing I dislike more than being in a photo shoot where they say, 'Be yourself.'... 
There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing fr... 
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The only thing that I don't like is my kids watching comedy that isn't actually funny. There... 
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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The n... 
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I'm reasonably easygoing. Messing up my lines or making a fool of myself is where you find my fe... 
There are tragedies that happen all the time in America, but there are certain types of tragedies th... 
There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's rea... 
I think for a lot of people, bowling is sort of a joke. But I love it, and it means a lot to me, so ... 
I've always liked Southeast Asia a lot. It's a wonderful place, an easy place. People are gr... 
I've had moments when I've thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they... 
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Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative o... 
One of the things that I share with Bryan Becket is this hole in my childhood memory. There's ab... 
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One thing I've always been concerned about is the objectification of women in ads, and that'... 
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No one can replace a unique person like Peter. 
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. 
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. 
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore. 
I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out. 
We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me ch... 
I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard. 
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I want to enjoy not getting recognised while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can... 
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention. 
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. 
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I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I kn... 
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. 
Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying... 
You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven... 
I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' A... 
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of ea... 
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If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which incl... 