298 Quotes by Alan Alda

Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you'll discover will be wonderful: yourself.

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

Everybody's on their toes and focused on what we're about to do, and then there's this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can. Everyone opens up to one another right away. That's a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.

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

I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can't put into words. If I could put it into words, then it wouldn't be a performance. And if I do put it into words, as I play it, I start to get boxed in by those words.

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

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

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.

It's better to be wise than to be smart.