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Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.
Alan Alda
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Alan Alda
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: January 28
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
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Manhattan borough
New York City
Alphonso Joseph D’Abruzzo
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More quotes by Alan Alda
artists try to say things that can't be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling a taste a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
Alan Alda
A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
Alan Alda
It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.
Alan Alda
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.
Alan Alda
For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.
Alan Alda
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
I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.
Alan Alda
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
Alan Alda
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
Alan Alda
Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
Alan Alda
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.
Alan Alda
Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.
Alan Alda
My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
Alan Alda
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.
Alan Alda
I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
Alan Alda
Insanity is just a state of mind.
Alan Alda
Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
Alan Alda
Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
Alan Alda
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
Kids are natural scientists.
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