Alan Alda Quotes

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

Before Oddness Shown Sign Six Stab Until
Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
ALAN ALDA

Accomplish Chutzpah Ever Nothing
Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
ALAN ALDA

Doubt Get
In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’
ALAN ALDA

Blockage Frontier Intestinal Segment
During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
ALAN ALDA

Day First Inmate Long Take
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

Communicate Improvisation One Presentation Scientist Thing Train Use Way
When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
ALAN ALDA

Alien Kid Leave Thirteen Until Twenty
Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
ALAN ALDA

Every Inmate Nearly Told
If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
ALAN ALDA

Give Lease More
There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
ALAN ALDA

Plenty

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