3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Alan Alda I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Alan Alda Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Alan Alda 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Alan Alda It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
