Insanity is just a state of mind.
ALAN ALDAWhen people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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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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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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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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I’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
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If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
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But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
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