Alan Alda Quotes

• 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.

  Alan Alda

  Topics in Anger

  Tags in Flashes, Angry

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

  Alan Alda

  Tags in Sterile

• 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.

  Alan Alda

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Corner, Assumed, Questions

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

  Alan Alda

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Corner, Assumed, Questions

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Light, Assumption, Science

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

  Alan Alda

• 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

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

  Alan Alda

  Tags in Nicknames

• 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.

  Alan Alda

  Tags in Deeper

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

  Alan Alda

  Topics in Humor, Love, Money

  Tags in Relationships

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

  Alan Alda

  Topics in Wise

  Tags in Better, Smart, Remember

• 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.

  Alan Alda

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Intuition, Creativity

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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