I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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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Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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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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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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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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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff.
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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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