I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
ALAN ALDASelling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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A taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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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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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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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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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.
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Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
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