All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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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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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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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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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’
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I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can’t put into words. If I could put it into words, then it wouldn’t be a performance. And if I do put it into words, as I play it, I start to get boxed in by those words.
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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
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I’m in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It’s fun.
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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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