Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
ALAN ALDAIn 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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I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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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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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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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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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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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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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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I’m greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn’t do it, that somehow I can deliver.
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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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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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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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A taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
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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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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’
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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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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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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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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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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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