I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
ALAN ALDAKids are natural scientists.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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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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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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Everybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.
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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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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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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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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
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I’m in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It’s fun.
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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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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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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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