Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
ALAN ALDAWhat I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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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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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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I’m in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.
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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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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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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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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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The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed.
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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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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
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