When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
ALAN ALDABe brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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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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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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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 wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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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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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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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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I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
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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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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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