Alan Alda Quotes

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

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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.

  Alan Alda

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  You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.

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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. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.

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

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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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• I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.

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• 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.

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• I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

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

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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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• I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn’t know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.

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• 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.

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

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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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• 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.

  Alan Alda

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• No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

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• After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.

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• Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.

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Alan Alda (32)

Birth:	28th January, 1936
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Author, Director, Screenwriter

About

Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo, better known as Alan Alda, is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, he is best known for his roles as Hawkeye Pierce in the TV series M*A*S*H and Arnold Vinnick in The West Wing. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Journalism and a member of the advisory board of The Center for Communicating Science.

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