Insanity is just a state of mind.
ALAN ALDAWhat 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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn’t look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy – I mean Jimmy as the character.
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I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
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It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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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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Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
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The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
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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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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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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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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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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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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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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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