I’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
ALAN ALDABe brave enough to live creatively.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.
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It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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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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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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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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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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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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