Top 125 Quotes by Alan Alda

All I've ever tried to do is play real people.

I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

The idea that the brain is not fully formed until you are almost 30 years old has already been introduced, and the Supreme Court already has based two rulings on it.

I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.

Kids are natural scientists.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.

I love to watch how scientists' minds work.

I know there's a creative side to artists to - pardon me - there's a creative side to scientists already, but there may be an artistic side, too, waiting to break free.