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.
ALAN ALDAIn 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.
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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Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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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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But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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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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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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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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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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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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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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