But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
ALAN ALDAI 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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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I’m greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn’t do it, that somehow I can deliver.
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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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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.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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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?
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I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can’t put into words. If I could put it into words, then it wouldn’t be a performance. And if I do put it into words, as I play it, I start to get boxed in by those words.
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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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They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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