Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
ALAN ALDAlife is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.
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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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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 used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
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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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We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
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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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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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I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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