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.
ALAN ALDAlife is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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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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You’ll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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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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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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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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For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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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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I was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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