I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
ALAN ALDALoneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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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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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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I’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
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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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artists try to say things that can’t be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling.
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I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
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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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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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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?
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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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It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
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I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
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But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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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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