Alan Alda Quotes
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Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
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Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.
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When they called me up and asked me if I wanted to work with them, they just told me a little bit about the character and the story. They hadn't finished writing it yet. He's a very three-dimensional character, which is really what I've always looked forward to playing in any story I was in.
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I don't miss directing at all, and I don't miss screenwriting either because somebody's always telling you to do something different.
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It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.
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'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.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I'm no longer a Catholic. I don't talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it's something personal - more than personal, it's private.
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I made my first stage appearance when I was 6 months old.
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I love the idea of being out there with little or no net.
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I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.
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There's plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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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 recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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If you don't listen deeply, the connection won't take place.... [You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you're listening to, where you're not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you're actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.
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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.
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I always loved Sid Caesar and all the people on his program.
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When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.
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There is a wonderful feeling of power when you're a director, but I don't think I need that, and I'm OK without it.
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The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
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If you know what you're looking for, that's all you'll get - what's previously known. But when you're open to what's possible, you get something new - that's creativity.
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Anyone I know who's almost died has come out of it, at least for a while, looking at things differently.
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Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.
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Blind dates are treacherous. You don't know who this person is. You wonder, 'Should I call my grandma during coffee to get out of this?'
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We're left now with just a little bit of snow at the bottom of the screen.