Alan Alda Quotes
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Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.
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I love the idea of being out there with little or no net.
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I used to not want to die in any way but in my sleep when I was a young man. I'd like to die awake now, if possible, with people around me who love me.
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Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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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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I must have interviewed 600 or 700 scientists all around the world.
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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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The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.
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For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.
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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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I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.
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There's plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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I always loved Sid Caesar and all the people on his program.
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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.
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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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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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It's very important for us to see that science is done by people, not just brains but whole human beings, and sometimes at great cost.
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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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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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And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn't mean I think that you should.
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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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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I'm always inventing something.