Alan Alda

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

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

I fix my grandchildren's computers.

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.

We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.