Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
ALAN ALDAEverybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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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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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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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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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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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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It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn’t look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy – I mean Jimmy as the character.
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I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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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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I still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
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In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’
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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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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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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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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.
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That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
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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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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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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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