Top 125 Quotes by Alan Alda

I would like to know that when I read the paper in the morning, it's telling me something that actually happened, and I think the vast majority of journalists want the same thing.

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.

When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.

It's very important for us to see that science is done by people, not just brains but whole human beings, and sometimes at great cost.

For me, I find that even though I've accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn't give me a sense of satisfaction.

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

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.

I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.

You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.

Backstage life is terrific training for an actor, seeing shows from the wings.