If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
ALAN ALDAMusicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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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 let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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A taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
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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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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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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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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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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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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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