No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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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 can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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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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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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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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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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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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They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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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.
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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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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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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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