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

Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
Alan Alda

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

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

Be fair with others, but then keep after them until they're fair with you.
Alan Alda

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

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

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

I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
Alan Alda

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


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.
Alan Alda

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
Alan Alda

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

I've never tried to manipulate my image.
Alan Alda

If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.
Alan Alda

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
Alan Alda

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

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.
Alan Alda

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

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.
Alan Alda