Alan Alda - OpenMeans

Alan Alda

Country	American Samoa
Born	Tuesday, 30 November -0001
Category
Quotes	119

actor

Title	Category
Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.	Uncategorized
Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.	Uncategorized
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.	Uncategorized
It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.	Uncategorized
I've never tried to manipulate my image.	Uncategorized
I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.	Uncategorized
You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.	Uncategorized
No, I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it.	Uncategorized
It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.	Uncategorized
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.	Uncategorized
I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.	Uncategorized
I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It's fun.	Uncategorized
Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are the windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile or the light won't come in.	Uncategorized
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.	Uncategorized
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.	Uncategorized
Be fair with others, but then keep after them until they're fair with you.	Uncategorized
When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.	Uncategorized
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.	Uncategorized
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.	Uncategorized