I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
ALAN ALDAWhat you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
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You’ll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
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This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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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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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.
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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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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.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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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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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’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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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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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can’t put into words. If I could put it into words, then it wouldn’t be a performance. And if I do put it into words, as I play it, I start to get boxed in by those words.
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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.
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