Alan Alda Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.”

“I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.”

“When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.”

“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.”

“It's a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleagues and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children.”

“It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.”

“Achingly funny as it was, Larry Gelbart's writing gave off sparks that turned a hard light on the way we are.”

“I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.”

“I love oatmeal. To me, it's not boring. I agree that ordinary oatmeal is very boring, but not the steel-cut Irish kind - the kind that pops in your mouth when you bite into it in little glorious bursts like a sort of gummy champagne.”

“Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.”