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!
ALAN ALDAEveryone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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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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For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.
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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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You’ll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
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Kids are natural scientists.
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[You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you’re listening to, where you’re not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you’re actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.
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Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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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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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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