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.
ALAN ALDAWhat I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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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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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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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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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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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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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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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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