If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
ALAN ALDARemarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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artists try to say things that can’t be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling.
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In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’
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They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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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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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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I’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
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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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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 found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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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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