What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
ALAN ALDAYou wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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I’m in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It’s fun.
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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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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.
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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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I’m greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn’t do it, that somehow I can deliver.
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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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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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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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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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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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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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