Alan Alda
actor, television actor, film actor, film director, screenwriter, writer, television director, director, comedian
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All Quotes by Alan Alda
“What is beauty, anyway? It's more than something pleasant looking. If it doesn't stop us in our tracks and make us unable to move for a moment, unable to put into words what's closing off the breath in our throats, then maybe it's pretty, but it probably isn't beauty.”
“Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.”
“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.”
“I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.”
“It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.”
“Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.”
“Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.”
“I love oatmeal. To me, it's not boring. I agree that ordinary oatmeal is very boring, but not the steel-cut Irish kind - the kind that pops in your mouth when you bite into it in little glorious bursts like a sort of gummy champagne.”
“If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.”
“The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.”
“My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six.”
“… life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.”
“You don't put statistics on trial, you put individuals on tial.”