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• I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.

  Alan Alda

  Blow, Volcanoes, Sharks

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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?

  Alan Alda

  Winning, Waiting, Actors

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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.

  Alan Alda

  Trying, Looks, Stories

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• I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.

  Alan Alda

  Play, People, Tennis

  Interview with Claudia Gryvatz Copquin, www.saturdayeveningpost.com. May, 2013.

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• Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won't do what you've done before.

  Alan Alda

  Done

  Interview with Claudia Gryvatz Copquin, www.saturdayeveningpost.com. May, 2013.

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• I'm very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they're making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.

  Alan Alda

  Way, Use, Helping

  "World Science Festival: Brian Greene and Alan Alda Bring Science to the Masses". Interview with Clare Richardson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 06, 2011.

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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.

  Alan Alda

  Debate, Hours, Exciting

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