I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
ALAN ALDARepublicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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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.
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When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
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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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I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
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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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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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I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
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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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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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