Alan Alda quotes

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
- Alan Alda

No matter how big the audience is going to be. I'm interested in doing things that are fun.
- Alan Alda

There is no hidden meaning to life ... looking for one is our problem solving brain chasing its tail.
- Alan Alda

I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
- 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 is yourself.
- Alan Alda

In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.
- Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.
- 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

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

When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn't leave until they're 20.
- Alan Alda

What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
- Alan Alda

War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
- Alan Alda

In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.
- Alan Alda

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.
- Alan Alda

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
- Alan Alda