Be brave enough to live creatively.
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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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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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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It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn’t look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy – I mean Jimmy as the character.
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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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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
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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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A taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
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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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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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