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.
ALAN ALDALaugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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Kids are natural scientists.
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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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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
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When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
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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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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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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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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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