Quotes by Alan Alda

Alan Alda

Alan Alda

American actor, director, screenwriter, and author.

Lived from: 1936 -

Category: Politics | Movie | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 28 january 1936

  • Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
  • I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
  • 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.
  • Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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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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  • 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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  • Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
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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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  • It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
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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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  • Kids are natural scientists.
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  • Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
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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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  • 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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What are the most famous quotes from Alan Alda?

The two most famous quotes from Alan Alda are:

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

When did Alan Alda live?

Alan Alda was born in 1936.