It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
ALAN ALDAIt isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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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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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what’s personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn’t ring true.
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In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’
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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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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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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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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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I still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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