I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
ALAN ALDARemarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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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’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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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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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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Jean Paul Sartre says in “No Exit” that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
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When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
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Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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