Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
ALAN ALDAI’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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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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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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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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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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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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