I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
ALAN ALDAOne day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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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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If you know what you’re looking for, that’s all you’ll get – what’s previously known. But when you’re open to what’s possible, you get something new – that’s creativity.
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I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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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;
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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.
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I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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