What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.
ALAN ALDAOne day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
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My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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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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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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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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The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
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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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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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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
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The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed.
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