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Alan Alda  Quotes
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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AchievementActionSteps
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Until I was twenty I was sure there was a being who could see everything I did and who didn’t like most of it. He seemed to care about minute aspects of my life, like...

—Alan Alda

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AtheismAtheistEvidence
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It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.

—Alan Alda

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Ideas
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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.

—Alan Alda

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I must have interviewed 600 or 700 scientists all around the world.

—Alan Alda

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I think the audience was aware that even when it was farcical, there was the sense that at some level this was about real experience.

—Alan Alda

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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.

—Alan Alda

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QuiteWonderful
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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.

—Alan Alda

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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn’t know how to get out of...

—Alan Alda

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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.

—Alan Alda

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[Alda concluded by invoking the words with which Jennings had closed his final broadcast in April, when he informed viewers of his illness.] Dear friend, … Thanks. And good night.

—Alan Alda

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Words
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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries.

—Alan Alda

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GreatestUnderstand
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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.

—Alan Alda

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AfraidKnowingThough
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The thing is when you’re… well-enough known, you get asked to speak places, and they don’t really think about whether or not you’re qualified. They just want somebody that will be a drawing card for...

—Alan Alda

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SomebodySpeakWhether
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I don’t watch that much TV, so I can’t compare one show to another. When I watch television, I watch people talking to one another usually or a science show where they show me microbes,...

—Alan Alda

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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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Achingly funny as it was, Larry Gelbart’s writing gave off sparks that turned a hard light on the way we are.

—Alan Alda

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It’s very important for us to see that science is done by people, not just brains but whole human beings, and sometimes at great cost.

—Alan Alda

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I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

—Alan Alda

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He knew there was something wrong, but there wasn’t even a name for it in those days.

—Alan Alda

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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

—Alan Alda

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ChangedListening
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I know there’s a creative side to artists to – pardon me – there’s a creative side to scientists already, but there may be an artistic side, too, waiting to break free.

—Alan Alda

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If scientists can’t communicate with the public, with policy makers, with one another, the future is going to be held back. We’re not going to have the future that we could have.

—Alan Alda

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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because...

—Alan Alda

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Often
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There’s a vacancy now that no president can fill, no power on Earth can fill, … Others will step in and fill in his shoes excellently. But no one can replace the unique presence that...

—Alan Alda

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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.

—Alan Alda

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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.

—Alan Alda

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In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’

—Alan Alda

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I think most people are interested in our origins; once we understand, it might be easier to become the people we’d like to be. Or, better, become the people we think we already are.

—Alan Alda

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MightOnceUnderstand
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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.

—Alan Alda

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AmountGettingMatter
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Backstage life is terrific training for an actor, seeing shows from the wings.

—Alan Alda

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Kids are natural scientists.

—Alan Alda

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NaturalScientists
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.

—Alan Alda

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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...

—Alan Alda

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It’s a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleagues and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children.

—Alan Alda

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I used to not want to die in any way but in my sleep when I was a young man. I’d like to die awake now, if possible, with people around me who love me.

—Alan Alda

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My father sang well, and he was a handsome man. When he walked down the street, people sometimes mistook him for Cary Grant and asked for his autograph.

—Alan Alda

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After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.

—Alan Alda

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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.

—Alan Alda

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Excellence
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When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool’s sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.

—Alan Alda

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Be fair with others, but then keep after them until they’re fair with you.

—Alan Alda

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FairOthersUntil
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