I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn’t know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
ALAN ALDAI wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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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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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
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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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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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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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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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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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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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I’m in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It’s fun.
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Everybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.
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