What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
ALAN ALDAThe other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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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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This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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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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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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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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I was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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You’ll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
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I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
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