Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
ALAN ALDAAs I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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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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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 play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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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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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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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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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can’t put into words. If I could put it into words, then it wouldn’t be a performance. And if I do put it into words, as I play it, I start to get boxed in by those words.
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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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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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