Alan Alda Quotes

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

Intelligence, Wise, Smart

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

Light, Off, Once

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

Yourself, Laugh, Doubt

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

Life, Live, Enough

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.
Alan Alda

Good, Strong, Woman

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.
Alan Alda

Another, Laughing, Generally

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

Work, Yourself, Hard

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

Yourself, Wonderful, Intuition

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

After, Others, Keep

Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are the windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile or the light won't come in.
Alan Alda

Light, Off, Once

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

Change, Advice, Dog

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

Anger, Angry, Person

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
Alan Alda

Person, Able, Listening

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

Bad, Person, Wonderful

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.
Alan Alda

Work, True, Personal

I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.
Alan Alda

Hard, Afraid, Knowing

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.
Alan Alda

Place, Else, Creative

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

Life, After, Dead

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

Everybody, Almost, Nickname

And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn't mean I think that you should.
Alan Alda

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

Money, Girl, Give

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

Life, Time, Sometimes

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

Age, After, Others

I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice.
Alan Alda

Work, Time, Nice

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
Alan Alda

Business, Knowledge, Find

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: January 28, 1936

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