I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
ALAN ALDAI’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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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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 have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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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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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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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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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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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!
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But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
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It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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