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Alan Alda

Alan Alda (born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo; January 28, 1936) is an Emmy award-winning American actor, director and screenwriter. He is well known for his role as "Hawkeye Pierce" in the television series M*A*S*H. During the 1970s and '80s, he was viewed as the archetypal sympathetic male, though in recent years, he has appeared in roles that counter that image

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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

– Alan Alda

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Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself.

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For some reason, leatherbound copies of the goings-on in Congress lined the shelves of our living room, and I pored over them when I was 12. I had never read anything so funny," Alda said. "From then on, I knew I wanted to do comedy.

– Alan Alda

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

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It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

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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

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The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.

– Alan Alda

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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

– Alan Alda

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I see more than ever how proud I am to be part of our brotherhood and sisterhood of actors.

– Alan Alda

Found on Reuters 5 years ago

It may never have been more urgent to see the world through another person's eyes than when a culture is divided so sharply. Actors can help, just a little, by just doing what we do.

– Alan Alda

Found on CNN 5 years ago

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