When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
ALAN ALDAI let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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 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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It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
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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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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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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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When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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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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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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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 dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
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