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I fix my grandchildren's computers. — Alan Alda

My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays. — Alan Alda

When I got recognized as a writer, when I got the Emmy, I was more excited than the Emmys I had gotten as an actor. — Alan Alda

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

If a rattlesnake thinks he can swallow a mouse, he probably can. Don't assume you think like a snake unless you are one. — Alan Alda

You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it. — Alan Alda

No matter how big the audience is going to be. I'm interested in doing things that are fun. — Alan Alda

Anesthetized by youth, I missed it. — Alan Alda

M*A*S*H' was a collection of people, in front of and behind the cameras, that really clicked. — Alan Alda

I was what came to mind when there was blood on the floor. — Alan Alda

Life itself was an improvisation in which I was going to have to deal with what came to me and not think about what should have come. — Alan Alda

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

I think I look better in a suit than a loincloth. So that may define some of the parts I play. — Alan Alda

It's a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleagues and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children. — Alan Alda

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

I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda and how much money can Alan Alda have. — Alice Barrett

I'm pretty sure I'm a doppelganger for Alan Alda. I'm a trannie; I'm a man. — Megan Fox

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

Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are. — Alan Alda

Backstage life is terrific training for an actor, seeing shows from the wings. — Alan Alda

I don't like Paradise,
As they probably don't have obsessions there. — Alda Merini

The haymaking officially began at the end of July, when the blowballs had formed on the dandelions. — Alda Sigmundsdottir

Obama is a chatterbox who makes Alan Alda look like Genghis Khan. — Kathleen Parker

There's plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul. — Alan Alda

I've played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican. — Alan Alda

You know what my earliest memories are? Going from one burlesque town to another. My father was in burlesque. — Alan Alda

I really don't like plays or movies that service propaganda. — Alan Alda

Alan Alda is loved not because he's sensitive, but because he's successful and sensitive. — Warren Farrell

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth. — Alan Alda

As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time. — Alan Alda

I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile. — Alan Alda

I always loved Sid Caesar and all the people on his program. — Alan Alda

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi. — Alan Alda

I must have interviewed 600 or 700 scientists all around the world. — Alan Alda

I'm most at home on the stage. — Alan Alda

When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it. — Alan Alda

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work. — Alan Alda

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

You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school. — Alan Alda

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six. — Alan Alda

Be brave enough to live creatively. — Alan Alda

The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values. — Alan Alda

I love to watch how scientists' minds work. — Alan Alda

It's very important for us to see that science is done by people, not just brains but whole human beings, and sometimes at great cost. — Alan Alda

When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn't leave until they're 20. — Alan Alda

War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse. — Alan Alda

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 it. — Alan Alda

Any play is hard to write, and plays are getting harder and harder to get on the stage. — Alan Alda

I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It's fun. — Alan Alda

I hated high school. It was a prison. — Alan Alda

Raquel Welch, whom I've met but never kissed, once called the brain an erogenous zone. — Alan Alda

Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. — Alan Alda

In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again. — Alan Alda

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

You can't be aware of everything. You'd fall down the stairs if you were aware of every intricate thing involved in going down stairs. — Alan Alda

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old. — Alan Alda

No one brushes my hair as well as the wind. — Alda Merini

Aren't we lucky to be us? — Alan Alda

What heartens me is to see '30 Rock' on the air. It makes me laugh from my gut, which I really like to do. — Alan Alda

No, I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it. — Alan Alda

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

The meaning of life is life. — Alan Alda

I've never tried to manipulate my image. — Alan Alda

Blind dates are treacherous. You don't know who this person is. You wonder, 'Should I call my grandma during coffee to get out of this?' — Alan Alda

Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries. — Alan Alda

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

I've had many uncanny experiences. I think it's hard to be alive and not have them. But I don't know if I can decide what that means or what they are. — Alan Alda

Insanity is just a state of mind. — Alan Alda

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

In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.' — Alan Alda

Life is great-I wouldn't know what I'd do without it. — Alan Alda

I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally. — Alan Alda

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. — Alan Alda

It's better to be wise than to be smart. — Alan Alda

I made my first stage appearance when I was 6 months old. — Alan Alda

The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping. — Alan Alda

Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone - they just don't do it. — Alan Alda

For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics. — Alan Alda

I used to hold a fiery wind
and I tried to determine the direction
where poetry would fly. — Alda Merini

Why would you give money to somebody whose work you don't understand? — Alan Alda

When I was in high school, I fell under the spell of that crazy idea that if you're interested in the arts, you can't be interested in science. — Alan Alda

What's funny is that you can think you really value your life until you almost lose it. — Alan Alda

Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be. — Alan Alda

I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us. — Alan Alda

The President never intends to get into any kind of war situation. He gets carried away by events. — Alan Alda

In that moment, I could not write anything about flowers because I myself had turned into a flower, I myself had a stem and a lymph. — Alda Merini

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

Usually, comedy shows only influence other comedy shows. 'M*A*S*H' is one of the few comedies that influenced dramatic shows as well. — Alan Alda

All I've ever tried to do is play real people. — Alan Alda

Awards shows mainly publicize the people giving the awards. — Alan Alda

Kids are natural scientists. — Alan Alda

I have a strong preference for being alive. — Alan Alda

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

I love technology. — Alan Alda

I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I'm always inventing something. — Alan Alda

People who laugh together generally don't kill each other. — Alan Alda

Anyone I know who's almost died has come out of it, at least for a while, looking at things differently. — Alan Alda

I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am. — Alan Alda

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich. — Alan Alda

Achingly funny as it was, Larry Gelbart's writing gave off sparks that turned a hard light on the way we are. — Alan Alda