Alan Alda
Alan Alda
Alan Aldais an American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, he is widely known for his roles as Captain Hawkeye Pierce in the TV series M*A*S*H and Arnold Vinick in The West Wing. He has also appeared in many feature films, most notably in Crimes and Misdemeanorsas pretentious television producer Lester and in The Aviatoras U.S. Senator Owen Brewster, the latter of which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth28 January 1936
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Alan Alda quotes about
Life is great-I wouldn't know what I'd do without 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.
When the greatest hero in the history of my party, Abraham Lincoln, debated, he didn't need any rules, ... We could junk the rules.
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.
Others will step in and do his job with excellence. But no one can replace the unique person that was Peter.
I think the audience was aware that even when it was farcical, there was the sense that at some level this was about real experience.
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned
The creative is the place where no one else have ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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.
No one can replace a unique person like Peter.
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.
Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.
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 you know what you're looking for, that's all you'll get - what's previously known. But when you're open to what's possible, you get something new - that's creativity.