Alan Alda Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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Muslims remain the most convenient target for prejudice in a city like Delhi, which is far more ghettoized than Bombay or Bangalore, for example.
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I love New York. It's hard to explain, but it's the energy of the city. It's not like L.A. where everything is spread out.
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With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.
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I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.
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How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
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Suzhou is an ancient city full of old gardens that are very famous in China. It is very beautiful. Plus, I met my boyfriend there!
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New York is a fantastic city.
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There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.
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I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.
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Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types.
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When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
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I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.
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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.
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I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.
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As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.
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I've been really lucky when it comes to casting kids, and I don't particularly like child actors. Too often, they just show up, and they've had whatever real innocence that's in a child just beaten out of them. They start to perform for you, and you can just see it coming. It's no good.
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Remember that the truth within yourself will always be greater than the truth found in these pages. These stories are here to guide us—to help us find that truth, not to tell us what it is.
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What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.
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I think sports are extremely beneficial for our youth. They parallel life in so many ways.
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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.
