But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
ALAN ALDALaugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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Kids are natural scientists.
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This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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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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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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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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