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Alan Alda

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 two million years. Is it possible we can have an average life span as a species? And do you picture us two million years more or a million and a half years, or 5,000?

– Alan Alda

Alan Alda

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

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Alan Alda

No matter how big the audience is going to be. I’m interested in doing things that are fun.

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Alan Alda

I hated high school. It was a prison.

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Alan Alda

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.

– Alan Alda

Alan Alda

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

Alan Alda

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

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Alan Alda

You know what my earliest memories are? Going from one burlesque town to another. My father was in burlesque.

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Alan Alda

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.

– Alan Alda

Alan Alda

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 it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.

– Alan Alda

Alan Alda

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

Alan Alda

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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