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.
ALAN ALDADon’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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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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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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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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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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If you know what you’re looking for, that’s all you’ll get – what’s previously known. But when you’re open to what’s possible, you get something new – that’s creativity.
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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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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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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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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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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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