Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
ALAN ALDAI was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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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 let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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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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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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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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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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I still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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