When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
ALAN ALDAI 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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
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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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It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
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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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There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
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It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
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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 wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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