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 ALDABut if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
More Alan Alda Quotes
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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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.’
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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.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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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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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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