A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
ALAN ALDADon’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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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 was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
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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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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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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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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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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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A taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
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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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I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
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I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
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