I was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
ALAN ALDAWhen your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
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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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It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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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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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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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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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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[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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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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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.
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I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
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