When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
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I’m in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.
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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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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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I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I’ve thought, ‘Why don’t I just act on that impulse?’ But then, I’ve never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I’ve never hit anybody for fun.
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In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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You’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.
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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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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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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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