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The meaning of life is life.

~Alan Alda

Topics: Life Meaning Meaning Of Meaning Of Life

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

~Alan Alda

Topics: Audience Big Doing Fun Going How Interested Matter Things

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What heartens me is to see '30 Rock' on the air. It makes me laugh from my gut, which I really like to do.

~Alan Alda

Topics: Air Gut Laugh Like Makes Me Really Rock See Which 30 Rock

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I always loved Sid Caesar and all the people on his program.

~Alan Alda

Topics: Always Caesar His Loved People Program

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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

Topics: Asked Autograph Cary Grant Down Father Grant Handsome He Him His Man People Sang Sometimes Street Walked Well

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What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognise their names and faces but know almost nothing else about them?

~Alan Alda

Topics: About Almost Almost Nothing Among Become Bodies Curiosity Else Faces Fact Famous Fascination Know Lips Most Names Nothing Ordinary Ordinary People Other People Recognise Rest Simply Target Them Understand Us Virtue Why

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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.

~Alan Alda

Topics: Boy Everyone Famous First Had Knew Made Me Never Really Rich Supposed View Want Wanted

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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

Topics: Arts Crazy Fell High High School Idea Interested School Science Spell You

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What is beauty, anyway? It's more than something pleasant looking. If it doesn't stop us in our tracks and make us unable to move for a moment, unable to put into words what's closing off the breath in our throats, then maybe it's pretty, but it probably isn't beauty.

~Alan Alda

Topics: Anyway Beauty Breath Closing Looking Make Maybe Moment More Move Off Our Pleasant Pretty Put Something Stop Than Then Throats Tracks Unable Us Words

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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

Topics: Funny Gave Hard Larry Light Off Sparks Turned Way Writing

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: January 28th, 1936

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