You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
ALAN ALDAI have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I’ve thought, ‘Why don’t I just act on that impulse?’ But then, I’ve never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I’ve never hit anybody for fun.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’
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I’m in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.
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I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can’t put into words. If I could put it into words, then it wouldn’t be a performance. And if I do put it into words, as I play it, I start to get boxed in by those words.
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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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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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I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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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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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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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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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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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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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 I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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