Kids are natural scientists.
ALAN ALDAI really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
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I’m in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.
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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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[You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you’re listening to, where you’re not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you’re actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.
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After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.
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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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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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A taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
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I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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