I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
ALAN ALDAMusicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
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Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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