Alan Alda Quotes

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

  Alan Alda

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Creative

• I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.

  Alan Alda

  Tags in Sterile

• I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?

  Alan Alda

  Tags in Nominated, Theater

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

  Alan Alda

  Topics in Money

• 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.

  Alan Alda

  Tags in Shelf, Freshness

• 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.

  Alan Alda

  Topics in Laughter

  Tags in Self-Confidence

• My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

  Alan Alda

  Topics in Father

• 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.

  Alan Alda

  Tags in Uncertainty, Reminder

• When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.

  Alan Alda

  Topics in Laughter

• 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.

  Alan Alda

  Topics in Risk, Work

  Tags in Hard Work

• You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.

  Alan Alda

  Topics in Business

• Be fair with others, but then keep after them until they’re fair with you.

  Alan Alda

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.

Related Authors

• Javier Bardem
• Dane Cook
• Mark Rydell
• Jonathan Miller
• Allan Sherman
• Colm Meaney
• Logan Henderson
• Tyrone Power
• Krista Allen
• Patrice Leconte

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 24th November

Births

• 1925 - Simon Van Der Meer
• 1942 - Marlin Fitzwater
• 1934 - Martin Charnin
• 1948 - Spider Robinson
• 1632 - Baruch Spinoza

Deaths

• 2005 - Pat Morita
• 1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald
• 1991 - Paul Charles Caravello
• 1990 - Fred Shero
• 1807 - Joseph Brant