black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.

Alan Alda

There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
ALAN ALDA

Happy Life Make Pleasure Really Thing Well
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.
ALAN ALDA

Bad Beat Gravitate Half Non-obsessively People Play Seem Tennis Time
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.
ALAN ALDA

Betray Child Feel Kill Live Love Mother Paranoid Psychotic Something
If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
ALAN ALDA

Girl Give Lease Money More
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.
ALAN ALDA

Clear Have Longer Onto Something Really Time
My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
ALAN ALDA

Curious Hungry Relationship Science Someone Understand
I’m in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It’s fun.
ALAN ALDA

Court Frequent People Real Some Steal Stop Them
Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
ALAN ALDA

Brave Creative Discover Enough Wonderful Yourself
Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
ALAN ALDA

Create Existence Originally Own Territory Unexplored
What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
ALAN ALDA

Discover Wonderful Yourself
Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
ALAN ALDA

Business Frown Major Out School Sell
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 ALDA

Abnormal Almost Hypothesis led Poison Suffer Testosterone
Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
ALAN ALDA

Before Beginning Being Done Good Mystify
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
ALAN ALDA

Always Better Remember Smart Wise
Insanity is just a state of mind.
ALAN ALDA

Instant Just Mind State
What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
ALAN ALDA

Act Actor Always Want Get Good Seen So

I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Alan Alda Quotes