Alan Alda Quotes

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

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

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

"Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory."

"Others will step in and do his job with excellence. But no one can replace the unique person that was Peter."

"For nearly a quarter of a century three men in this country were anchors in more ways than one. At a time so many things in our country were changing, they were solid."

"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself."

"If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money"

"I think the audience was aware that even when it was farcical, there was the sense that at some level this was about real experience."

"When the greatest hero in the history of my party, Abraham Lincoln, debated, he didn't need any rules, ... We could junk the rules."

"You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself."

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

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

"I love the idea of being out there with little or no net,"

"Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself."

"When they called me up and asked me if I wanted to work with them, they just told me a little bit about the character and the story. They hadn't finished writing it yet. He's a very three-dimensional character, which is really what I've always looked forward to playing in any story I was in."

"[Alda concluded by invoking the words with which Jennings had closed his final broadcast in April, when he informed viewers of his illness.] Dear friend, ... Thanks. And good night."