I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
ALAN ALDADon’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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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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How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?
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I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
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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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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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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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There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
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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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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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