Alan Alda Quotes

Alan Alda Quotes & Quotations
Name:
Alan Alda
Type:
Actor
Nationality:
American
Birth day:
January 28
Birth year:
1936

  • 1
    Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname. Alan Alda
  • 2
    Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. Alan Alda
  • 3
    Be fair with others, but then keep after them until they're fair with you. Alan Alda
  • 4
    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
  • 5
    I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen. Alan Alda
  • 6
    I think the audience was aware that even when it was farcical, there was the sense that at some level this was about real experience. Alan Alda
  • 7
    I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It's fun. Alan Alda
  • 8
    I've never tried to manipulate my image. Alan Alda
  • 9
    It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich. Alan Alda
  • 10
    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
  • 11
    Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change. Alan Alda
  • 12
    No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. Alan Alda
  • 13
    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. Alan Alda
  • 14
    When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years. Alan Alda
  • 15
    When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another. Alan Alda
  • 16
    You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself. Alan Alda
  • 17
    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
  • 18
    You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school. Alan Alda

 

 

 

 

 

 

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