A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
ALAN ALDAI wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
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What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.
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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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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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