Alan Alda Quotes

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.

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• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Comedy

• Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • History
  • Natural
  • Clever

• There was a lot of me trying to be a 'fixer.' I was that kind of guy. I'd meet someone who had 'so much potential' that needed 'help.' I think that was kind of my curse for a long time.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Culture
  • Sometimes

• There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Very
  • Days
  • Humanitarian

• France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Country
  • Latin
  • France

• I remember doing one of those computer careers tests. It told me I'd make an ideal HGV lorry driver because I've got 100 per cent spatial awareness. I'd be able to back them into tight parking spots.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Doing

• And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Business
  • Create
  • Brand

• Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Write
  • Stuff
  • Personal

• I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Think

• I don't live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Live
  • Free
  • Me

• Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Women
  • High
  • Always

• I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Comedy

• If you're driving, and a cop is behind you, you automatically think they're going to pull you over, but cops have so much more going on than to think about pulling you over. The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Think

• Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Go
  • Physics
  • Colonies

• I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Time
  • Kids

• Cancer initiates due to a wide variety of causes, some of which are outside of our control or already occurred during our childhood.

  

  Joel Fuhrman
  • Control
  • Childhood
  • Cancer

• To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.

  

  Caroline Lawrence
  • Real
  • Character

• But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.

  

  Eddie Bracken
  • Work
  • Stage
  • Excitement

• Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Work
  • Done
  • You

• I like to exercise in the morning before work. It puts me in a good mood, which makes my coworkers happy, and jump-starts my brain, which makes me happy.

  

  Betsy Beers
  • Good
  • Work
  • Happy

• As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Work
  • True
  • Artist