It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
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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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I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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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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Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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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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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what’s personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn’t ring true.
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