Alan Alda Quotes

I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.

I’m in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.

For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.

I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.

Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.

If you know what you’re looking for, that’s all you’ll get – what’s previously known. But when you’re open to what’s possible, you get something new – that’s creativity.

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

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.

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

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.

If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.