If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
ALAN ALDAMy relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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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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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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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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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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The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed.
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Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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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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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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