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.
ALAN ALDAIt 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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
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I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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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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I’m in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It’s fun.
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Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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