What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
ALAN ALDAI guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in. If you challenge your own, you won’t be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others.
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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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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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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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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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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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How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?
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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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So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
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I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
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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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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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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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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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