Backstage life is terrific training for an actor, seeing shows from the wings. — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying. — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
When I got recognized as a writer, when I got the Emmy, I was more excited than the Emmys I had gotten… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Any play is hard to write, and plays are getting harder and harder to get on the stage. — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
To do a musical takes a tremendous amount of energy because you have to act and sing at the same time. And… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
The one thing I think I've noticed about shows that are supposed to be funny on television is that they've sort of… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -… — Alan Alda Copy Share
We need to be more conversant with it because science is in our lives. It's in everything. It's in the food we eat. It's… — Alan Alda Copy Share
When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be… — Alan Alda Copy Share
I was brought up as a Catholic, and I'm no longer a Catholic. I don't talk about my beliefs too much in public probably… — Alan Alda Copy Share
life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something,… — Alan Alda Copy Share
Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi. — Alan Alda Copy Share
M*A*S*H' was a collection of people, in front of and behind the cameras, that really clicked. — Alan Alda Copy Share
“Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city… — Alan Alda Copy Share
To do a musical takes a tremendous amount of energy because you have to act and sing at the same time. And everything has… — Alan Alda Copy Share
“You can't get there by bus, only by hard work, risking, and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be… — Alan Alda Copy Share
I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are… — Alan Alda Copy Share
