I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
ALAN ALDAInsanity is just a state of mind.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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I’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to 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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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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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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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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