Alan Alda

Alan Alda

"Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been."
27 Quotes
"Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been."
Alan Alda
"I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger."
Alan Alda
"If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money."
Alan Alda
"The one thing I think I've noticed about shows that are supposed to be funny on television is that they've sort of become routinized, so there's an awful lot of mannerisms and joke lines that are sort of there to trigger laughter, rather than give actors a chance to play a moment."
Alan Alda
"I love oatmeal. To me, it's not boring. I agree that ordinary oatmeal is very boring, but not the steel-cut Irish kind - the kind that pops in your mouth when you bite into it in little glorious bursts like a sort of gummy champagne."
Alan Alda
"Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart."
Alan Alda
"I would like to know that when I read the paper in the morning, it's telling me something that actually happened, and I think the vast majority of journalists want the same thing."
Alan Alda
"Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you."
Alan Alda
"When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it."
Alan Alda
"We need to be more conversant with it because science is in our lives. It's in everything. It's in the food we eat. It's in the air we breathe. It's everywhere."
Alan Alda
"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."
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. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognise their names and faces but know almost nothing else about them?"
Alan Alda
"It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich."
Alan Alda
"I fix my grandchildren's computers."
Alan Alda
"I've been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity. All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you're not expecting it."
Alan Alda
"Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus only by hard work risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful: yourself."
Alan Alda
"What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?"
Alan Alda
"Listening is being able to be changed by the other person."
Alan Alda
"Aren't we lucky to be us?"
Alan Alda
"At times you have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself."
Alan Alda
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