My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
ALAN ALDAIt’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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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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I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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I was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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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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After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.
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If you know what you’re looking for, that’s all you’ll get – what’s previously known. But when you’re open to what’s possible, you get something new – that’s creativity.
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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