My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
ALAN ALDAYou have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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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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Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
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The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
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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 really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can’t put into words. If I could put it into words, then it wouldn’t be a performance. And if I do put it into words, as I play it, I start to get boxed in by those words.
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I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn’t know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
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