Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
ALAN ALDAA really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
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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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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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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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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?
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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’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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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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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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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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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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