Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
ALAN ALDAYou wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn’t look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy – I mean Jimmy as the character.
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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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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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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 been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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