I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
ALAN ALDAYour assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.
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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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life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
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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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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
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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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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
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