It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.
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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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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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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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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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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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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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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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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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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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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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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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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