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.
ALAN ALDAMy mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff.
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Everyone 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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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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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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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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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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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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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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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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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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I’m greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn’t do it, that somehow I can deliver.
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I still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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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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Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what’s personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn’t ring true.
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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