When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
ALAN ALDADuring the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
More Alan Alda Quotes
-
-
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.
ALAN ALDA -
I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
ALAN ALDA -
I’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
ALAN ALDA -
Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
ALAN ALDA -
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.
ALAN ALDA -
What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.
ALAN ALDA -
I still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
ALAN ALDA -
My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
ALAN ALDA -
Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
ALAN ALDA -
It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn’t look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy – I mean Jimmy as the character.
ALAN ALDA -
Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
ALAN ALDA -
Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
ALAN ALDA -
As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
ALAN ALDA -
I’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.
ALAN ALDA -
I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
ALAN ALDA