Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
ALAN ALDAThe good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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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?
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
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Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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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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It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.
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I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I’ve thought, ‘Why don’t I just act on that impulse?’ But then, I’ve never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I’ve never hit anybody for fun.
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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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