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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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Alan Alda
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: January 28
Actor
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Manhattan borough
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Alphonso Joseph D’Abruzzo
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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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Everybody's on their toes and focused on what we're about to do, and then there's this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can. 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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I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I've thought, 'Why don't I just act on that impulse?' But then, I've never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I've never hit anybody for fun.
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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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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn't leave until they're 20.
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Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
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I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can't put into words. If I could put it into words, then it wouldn't be a performance. And if I do put it into words, as I play it, I start to get boxed in by those words.
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Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be.
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I've never tried to manipulate my image.
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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'm very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they're making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
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Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.
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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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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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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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I've played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.
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My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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