How to Be a Nervous Wreck

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Alan Alda

Alan Alda played Hawkeye Pierce for eleven years in the television series M*A*S*H and has acted in, written, and directed many feature films. He has starred often on Broadway, and his avid interest in science has led to his hosting PBS's Scientific American Frontiers for eleven years.

By Alan Alda

Published on 08/19/2007

When I'm faced with a kind of character I've never tried before, the fear can rise to the level of terror. But, it's a terror I look forward to, and I don't like to take on a part unless it scares me a little. I've found a tremendous value in this kind of fear... in the rest of my life, too.