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I fix my grandchildren's computers.
— 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
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
Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
— Alan Alda
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
You know what my earliest memories are? Going from one burlesque town to another. My father was in burlesque.
— 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
Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.
— 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
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
Be brave enough to live creatively.
— 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
and I tried to determine the direction
where poetry would fly. — Alda Merini
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
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
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
Anyone I know who's almost died has come out of it, at least for a while, looking at things differently.
— Alan Alda