Begin challenging your own assumptions.
ALAN ALDAOne day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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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.
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After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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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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Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.
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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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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.
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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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Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
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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.
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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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