I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn’t know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
ALAN ALDAI don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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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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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
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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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For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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Kids are natural scientists.
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Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
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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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This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
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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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