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.
ALAN ALDAThe 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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Everybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.
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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
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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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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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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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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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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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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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