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.
ALAN ALDAThe good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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 dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
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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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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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Jean Paul Sartre says in “No Exit” that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
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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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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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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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Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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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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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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