Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
ALAN ALDASelling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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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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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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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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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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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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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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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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Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
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