A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
ALAN ALDARepublicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
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I still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I’ve thought, ‘Why don’t I just act on that impulse?’ But then, I’ve never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I’ve never hit anybody for fun.
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There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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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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How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?
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They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.
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It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
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My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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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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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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