Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
ALAN ALDAThe other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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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’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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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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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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And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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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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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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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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