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.
ALAN ALDAI’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.
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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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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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I’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.
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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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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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There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
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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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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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