Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
ALAN ALDAI 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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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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 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.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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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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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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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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It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.
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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.
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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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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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