Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
ALAN ALDAThe best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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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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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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As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what’s personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn’t ring true.
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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’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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I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.
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