I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
ALAN ALDAYou wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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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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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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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can’t put into words. If I could put it into words, then it wouldn’t be a performance. And if I do put it into words, as I play it, I start to get boxed in by those words.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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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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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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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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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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