Zitat des Tages von Alan Alda:
I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying.
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.
I don't watch that much TV, so I can't compare one show to another. When I watch television, I watch people talking to one another usually or a science show where they show me microbes, you know. Microbes actually communicate quite a bit, and so there's a lot of talking going on.
Be fair with others, but then keep after them until they're fair with you.
I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us.
It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it. Maybe things would have gone differently for me in some ways if I had.
It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.
Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.
I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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.
As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.
All I've ever tried to do is play real people.
Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.
You know what my earliest memories are? Going from one burlesque town to another. My father was in burlesque.
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 used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I'm always inventing something.
No matter how big the audience is going to be. I'm interested in doing things that are fun.
I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally.
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.
A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
I hated high school. It was a prison.
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in while, or the light won't come in.
I've had many uncanny experiences. I think it's hard to be alive and not have them. But I don't know if I can decide what that means or what they are.
I made my first stage appearance when I was 6 months old.
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.
If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.
My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.
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.
The President never intends to get into any kind of war situation. He gets carried away by events.
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.
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.
I feel like every time a door is opened by science, suddenly there are a hundred doors that need to get opened. That's what makes it an everlasting, interesting experience to go through.
