Jean Paul Sartre says in “No Exit” that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
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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life 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.
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It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
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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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Kids are natural scientists.
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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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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 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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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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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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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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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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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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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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