I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
ALAN ALDAIf I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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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’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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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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life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
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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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When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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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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It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
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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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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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