In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
ALAN ALDAI’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
More Alan Alda Quotes
-
-
Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
ALAN ALDA -
Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
ALAN ALDA -
I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
ALAN ALDA -
Begin challenging your own assumptions.
ALAN ALDA -
So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
ALAN ALDA -
Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
ALAN ALDA -
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.’
ALAN ALDA -
As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what’s personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn’t ring true.
ALAN ALDA -
As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
ALAN ALDA -
Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
ALAN ALDA -
Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
ALAN ALDA -
Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
ALAN ALDA -
Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
ALAN ALDA -
Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
ALAN ALDA -
I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
ALAN ALDA