Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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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I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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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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I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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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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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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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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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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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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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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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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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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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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What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.
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