It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich. Alan Alda More Quotes by Alan Alda More Quotes From Alan Alda What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat? Alan Alda names people thinking When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years. Alan Alda feelings years thinking It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me. Alan Alda stories trying looks I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice. Alan Alda nice play character 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. Alan Alda scare fields people 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. Alan Alda business want school Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work. Alan Alda top-notch notches directors My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that. Alan Alda mother trying father Kids are natural scientists. Alan Alda scientist natural kids I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It's fun. Alan Alda real fun people 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 greedy knowing satisfaction 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. Alan Alda catholic shapes doe 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. Alan Alda creativity something-new knows 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. Alan Alda volcanoes sharks blow Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be. Alan Alda cracked loneliness After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life. Alan Alda dead-dog dog thinking I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don't win, I'll just wait until I'm nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that? Alan Alda actors waiting winning During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn't do it. Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody. Alan Alda knives long hands 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. Alan Alda mother children thinking There's plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul. Alan Alda your-soul plenty soul
