It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
ALAN ALDAIf I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in. If you challenge your own, you won’t be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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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 always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.
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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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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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