You can't be aware of everything. You'd fall down the stairs if you were aware of every intricate thing involved in going… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
What's funny is that you can think you really value your life until you almost lose it. — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Blind dates are treacherous. You don't know who this person is. You wonder, 'Should I call my grandma during coffee to get… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
You know what my earliest memories are? Going from one burlesque town to another. My father was in burlesque. — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
I don't miss directing at all, and I don't miss screenwriting either because somebody's always telling you to do something different. — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
There is a wonderful feeling of power when you're a director, but I don't think I need that, and I'm OK without… — 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
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
When I was in high school, I fell under the spell of that crazy idea that if you're interested in the arts,… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
I love oatmeal. To me, it's not boring. I agree that ordinary oatmeal is very boring, but not the steel-cut Irish kind… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
It's a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleagues and to realize that they actually are young enough… — 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 whole question of fiduciary responsibility is a very old concept. You could make a movie about someone making that rule at… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
The idea that the brain is not fully formed until you are almost 30 years old has already been introduced, and the… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
The thing is when you're... well-enough known, you get asked to speak places, and they don't really think about whether or not… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might last?' I've… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
I don't watch that much TV, so I can't compare one show to another. When I watch television, I watch people talking… — 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
