Top 18 Alan Alda Quotes



I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!

 

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

 

How can I be so captured by my own imagination that I can truly connect both to the person I’m playing and to the person I’m playing wi

 

War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.

 

At times you have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.

 

[B]egin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in.

 

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

 

What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?

 

It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.

 

I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.

 

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.

 

When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool’s sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.

 

Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.

 

I would like to know that when I read the paper in the morning, it’s telling me something that actually happened, and I think the vast majority of journalists want the same thing.

 

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

 

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.

 

If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.

 

I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.

 

 

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