Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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.
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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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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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No 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.
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Everybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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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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Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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If 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?
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