Insanity is just a state of mind.
ALAN ALDAI’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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I still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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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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It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.
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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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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
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I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
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Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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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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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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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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