I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.
ALAN ALDAIf 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?
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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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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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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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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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in. If you challenge your own, you won’t be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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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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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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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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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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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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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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