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Alan Alda  Quotes
Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.

—Alan Alda

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When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, ‘How long do you think our species might last?’ I’ve read that the average age of a species, of any species, is about...

—Alan Alda

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I would like to know that when I read the paper in the morning, it’s telling me something that actually happened, and I think the vast majority of journalists want the same thing.

—Alan Alda

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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. If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater...

—Alan Alda

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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. Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t...

—Alan Alda

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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

—Alan Alda

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I have a strong preference for being alive.

—Alan Alda

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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.

—Alan Alda

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I always loved Sid Caesar and all the people on his program.

—Alan Alda

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We need to be more conversant with it because science is in our lives. It’s in everything. It’s in the food we eat. It’s in the air we breathe. It’s everywhere.

—Alan Alda

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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

—Alan Alda

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I’m condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for improving myself in many ways, including everyday tasks.

—Alan Alda

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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.

—Alan Alda

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My background is on the stage, so when I’d write movies, they’d be a lot like plays.

—Alan Alda

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The creative is the place where no one else have ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.

—Alan Alda

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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.

—Alan Alda

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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....

—Alan Alda

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If two scientists are giving their papers at a symposium, and one of them is just naturally better at talking to the public or talking to a group of people, that scientist is liable to...

—Alan Alda

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When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.

—Alan Alda

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At times you have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.

—Alan Alda

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Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition....

—Alan Alda

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For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.

—Alan Alda

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I love technology.

—Alan Alda

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I hated high school. It was a prison.

—Alan Alda

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So that’s it. I’ve told you everything I know. Think clearly and think for yourself. Learn to use language to express those thoughts. Love somebody with all your heart. And with everyone, whether you love...

—Alan Alda

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Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are the windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile or the light won’t come in.

—Alan Alda

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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...

—Alan Alda

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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.

—Alan Alda

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No, I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it.

—Alan Alda

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ORIGINALITY is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe — you can’t take a taxi.

—Alan Alda

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I’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.

—Alan Alda

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What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this...

—Alan Alda

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It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn’t look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy – I mean Jimmy as the character.

—Alan Alda

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Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they’re having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.

—Alan Alda

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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?

—Alan Alda

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How can I be so captured by my own imagination that I can truly connect both to the person I’m playing and to the person I’m playing with… I didn’t know it, but what I...

—Alan Alda

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M*A*S*H’ was a collection of people, in front of and behind the cameras, that really clicked.

—Alan Alda

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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.

—Alan Alda

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I love to watch how scientists’ minds work.

—Alan Alda

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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.

—Alan Alda

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Marie Curie is my hero. Few people have accomplished something so rare – changing science. And as hard as that is, she had to do it against the tide of the culture at the time...

—Alan Alda

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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to...

—Alan Alda

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I feel like every time a door is opened by science, suddenly there are a hundred doors that need to get opened. That’s what makes it an everlasting, interesting experience to go through.

—Alan Alda

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What’s funny is that you can think you really value your life until you almost lose it.

—Alan Alda

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an electronic Mount Rushmore.

—Alan Alda

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It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.

—Alan Alda

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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.

—Alan Alda

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Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have...

—Alan Alda

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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more. It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something...

—Alan Alda

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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.

—Alan Alda

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