I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
ALAN ALDAI’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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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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I’m in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.
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When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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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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I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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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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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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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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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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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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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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