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.
ALAN ALDALife is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what’s personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn’t ring true.
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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
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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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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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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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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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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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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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I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn’t know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
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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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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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