Im still a kid!
They dont know that.
But EW convinced him to reflect on his past six decades in Hollywood, anyway.
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Alda looks back at some of his greatest roles.
By the time I finished, I could throw a football 50 yards and hit the receiver.
Every time I did it, I had to sleep with my arm in ice all night.
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I could hardly lift a spoon.
I had to play a few bars of the Mephisto Waltz.
Women come up to me in airports and say its their favorite movie.
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Why would you come up to a stranger and tell them its your life story?
It would show if we really were friends.
Everybody devoted themselves to that, and to telling embarrassing stories about themselves.
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MASH(1972-1983)
After 11 seasons of playing Capt.
The memory is so traumatic for Hawkeye that he initially confuses the baby for a chicken.
I wrote that into the script because I had heard the story from two different wars.
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It can end tragically.
People are moved by it.
Its a traumatic thing to hear about, to see depicted.
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Its also the last project he directed.
I havent been interested in directing since then, he explains.
It has to be worth that much of your life to do.
Alda says the movie was based, in part, on the wedding of one of his daughters.
There was a beautiful tent and a terrible thunderstorm.
I just took it further!
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Anthony LaPaglia was so good in that movie [as a loan sharks henchman who falls for Sheedy].
He was talking as a not-very-well-educated Mafia guy.
He was so good, I didnt realize he was acting.
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Mel got together with the writer and started cutting all my lines.
Right in front of me!
You cant just put a pencil through everything.
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But I didnt argue about it.
I just said, ‘Ill be in my f–king trailer."
They got me in the truck, but then they couldnt get the door back open.
This is the glamorous life of movie stars."
The Good Fight(2018)
Good news!
The character is trying to take over their business by
stealing their clients, explains Alda.
They asked me to come back to shoot something in February, but I havent seen a script yet.
