Alan Alda Quotes (44 quotes)

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„I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.“
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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.“
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„I made my first stage appearance when I was 6 months old.“
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„In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.“
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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.“
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„I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.“
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„Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in while, or the light won't come in.“
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„Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.“
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„I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.“
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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. Not as somebody with a particular idea to sell, or something like that.“
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„When I got recognized as a writer, when I got the Emmy, I was more excited than the Emmys I had gotten as an actor.“
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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.“
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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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„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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„I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.“
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„I always loved Sid Caesar and all the people on his program.“
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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.'“
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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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„To do a musical takes a tremendous amount of energy because you have to act and sing at the same time. And everything has to be precise. Because you can't forget the lyrics because the band keeps playing, you know, and you're under a certain amount of pressure.“
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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.“
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Alan Alda
Author born: January 28, 1936
Nationality: American
Author Profession: Actor

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