All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
ALAN ALDAI can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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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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Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
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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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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’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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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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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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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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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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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
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How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?
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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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I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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Kids are natural scientists.
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When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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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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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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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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