My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
ALAN ALDAWe’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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.
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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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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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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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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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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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I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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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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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what’s personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn’t ring true.
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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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