Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
ALAN ALDAOur lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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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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It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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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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artists try to say things that can’t be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling.
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Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
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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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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
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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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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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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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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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