It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
ALAN ALDA
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More Alan Alda Quotes
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It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
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It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn’t look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy – I mean Jimmy as the character.
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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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 never tried to manipulate my image.
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Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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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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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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I’m greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn’t do it, that somehow I can deliver.
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I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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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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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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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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