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?
ALAN ALDASelling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
More Alan Alda Quotes
-
-
A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
ALAN ALDA -
I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
ALAN ALDA -
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.
ALAN ALDA -
Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
ALAN ALDA -
Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
ALAN ALDA -
I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
ALAN ALDA -
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.
ALAN ALDA -
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.
ALAN ALDA -
I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
ALAN ALDA -
For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
ALAN ALDA -
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!
ALAN ALDA -
Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
ALAN ALDA -
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.
ALAN ALDA -
Everybody’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.
ALAN ALDA -
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?
ALAN ALDA