I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
ALAN ALDAHere’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
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We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
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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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You’ll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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It 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.
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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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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
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I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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A taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
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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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I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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I’m greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn’t do it, that somehow I can deliver.
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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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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.
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You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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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’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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