Be brave enough to live creatively.
ALAN ALDAI found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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Kids are natural scientists.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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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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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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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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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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life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
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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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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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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.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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