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 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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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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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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I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
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I still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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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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It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.
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When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
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I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
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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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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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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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