298 Quotes by Alan Alda

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.

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.

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

There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well - that really makes me happy. The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.

I think it's important for scientists to speak in their own voices and not just be mediated by journalists or others speaking for them.

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

I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying.

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.

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