You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
ALAN ALDAI’m in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It’s fun.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Kids are natural scientists.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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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 really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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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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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
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But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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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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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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