Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.
– Alan Alda
I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
– Alan Alda
It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
– Alan Alda
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.
– Alan Alda
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.
– Alan Alda
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
– Alan Alda
ORIGINALITY is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.
– Alan Alda
When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.
– Alan Alda
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. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
– Alan Alda
You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
– Alan Alda
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
– Alan Alda
If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.
– Alan Alda
I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
– Alan Alda
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.
– Alan Alda
I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
– Alan Alda
I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
– Alan Alda
Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.
– Alan Alda
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
