Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
ALAN ALDAFor humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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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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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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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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I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can’t put into words. If I could put it into words, then it wouldn’t be a performance. And if I do put it into words, as I play it, I start to get boxed in by those words.
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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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It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
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