Alan Alda Quotes
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I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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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 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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I love oatmeal. To me, it's not boring. I agree that ordinary oatmeal is very boring, but not the steel-cut Irish kind - the kind that pops in your mouth when you bite into it in little glorious bursts like a sort of gummy champagne.
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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 love the idea of being out there with little or no net.
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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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… life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.
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I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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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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No, I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it.
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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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He knew there was something wrong, but there wasn't even a name for it in those days.
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Others will step in and do his job with excellence. But no one can replace the unique person that was Peter.
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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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When I was in high school, I fell under the spell of that crazy idea that if you're interested in the arts, you can't be interested in science.
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I always loved Sid Caesar and all the people on his program.
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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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It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.
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We need to be more conversant with it because science is in our lives. It's in everything. It's in the food we eat. It's in the air we breathe. It's everywhere.
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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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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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Everybody's on their toes and focused on what we're about to do, and then there's this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can. Everyone opens up to one another right away. That's a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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We're left now with just a little bit of snow at the bottom of the screen.