It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
ALAN ALDAIt’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
ALAN ALDAI 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 ALDAIt isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
ALAN ALDAYou’ll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
ALAN ALDANo man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
ALAN ALDAIf 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?
ALAN ALDABut often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
ALAN ALDAI’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
ALAN ALDAFor 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.
ALAN ALDAEveryone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
ALAN ALDARemarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
ALAN ALDAWhen your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
ALAN ALDAI 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.
ALAN ALDASomeone 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.
ALAN ALDAThe good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
ALAN ALDAI was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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