If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
ALAN ALDAWhen I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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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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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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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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Everybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.
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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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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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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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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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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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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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