I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
ALAN ALDAI’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
ALAN ALDASomeone 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.
ALAN ALDAWhen I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
ALAN ALDAI’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
ALAN ALDAHow can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?
ALAN ALDAIf you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
ALAN ALDAI’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
ALAN ALDAYou have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
ALAN ALDARepublicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
ALAN ALDADuring the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
ALAN ALDAAnd I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.
ALAN ALDAIt’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
ALAN ALDAI’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 ALDASo every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
ALAN ALDAAnd I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
ALAN ALDAAs an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what’s personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn’t ring true.
ALAN ALDA