Alan Alda Quotes
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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. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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If you don't listen deeply, the connection won't take place.... [You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you're listening to, where you're not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you're actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.
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All I've ever tried to do is play real people.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I'm always inventing something.
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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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Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.
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I love oatmeal. To me, it's not boring. I agree that ordinary oatmeal is very boring, but not the steel-cut Irish kind - the kind that pops in your mouth when you bite into it in little glorious bursts like a sort of gummy champagne.
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I made my first stage appearance when I was 6 months old.
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The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
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I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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Blind dates are treacherous. You don't know who this person is. You wonder, 'Should I call my grandma during coffee to get out of this?'
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We're left now with just a little bit of snow at the bottom of the screen.
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I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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When I was in high school, I fell under the spell of that crazy idea that if you're interested in the arts, you can't be interested in science.
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When they called me up and asked me if I wanted to work with them, they just told me a little bit about the character and the story. They hadn't finished writing it yet. He's a very three-dimensional character, which is really what I've always looked forward to playing in any story I was in.
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My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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He knew there was something wrong, but there wasn't even a name for it in those days.
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Others will step in and do his job with excellence. But no one can replace the unique person that was Peter.
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I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying.
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Life is great-I wouldn't know what I'd do without it.
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What heartens me is to see '30 Rock' on the air. It makes me laugh from my gut, which I really like to do.