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.
ALAN ALDAI 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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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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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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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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 still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
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It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn’t look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy – I mean Jimmy as the character.
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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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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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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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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Jean Paul Sartre says in “No Exit” that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
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My 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.
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