Alan Alda Quotes

I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.

Alan Alda

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 28, 1936

Topics

MeRichFamousViewWantBoy

The role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it to involve American man. It is our job to interest him in his community and to give his ideas the excitement they should have.

John Hay Whitney

CommunityExperienceDayJobMan

I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.

John Dingell

GreatMistakeWarSupportThinkGo

I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something to be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading.

John M. Ford

BookReadingThinkGivingGiving Up

I grip very close to the butt of the racket. This allows me to get a lot of wrist action to create more spin and whip.

Sloane Stephens

MeActionCreateButtMoreSpin

If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.

Tori Amos

FearDarknessYouOwnYourIssue

The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as concreteness and realism. The effort to reconcile the two is at the core of all my poetry.

Louis Dudek

WorkReligionPoetryEffortThought

When you sign onto something, you want the character to be redeemable and likeable, hopefully, and understandable.

Christian Slater

CharacterYouWantSomethingSign

I already have my dream job. Acting was the only thing that ever really kept my attention, and I'm very fortunate that I can have a career doing something I love.

Brant Daugherty

LoveJobDoingAttentionActing

I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever.

Ally Sheedy

LoveWomanManBlackThinkFall

I actually got into music because of art and because of skateboarding: All those graphics and punk bands and fanzines - they were glued together in my brain.

Alison Mosshart

MusicArtTogetherBrainPunkGot

I do like to start on time; I like to set the bar high for people.

Tina Fey

TimePeopleStartBarHighLike

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

Richard Meier

WorkGoodArchitecturePeopleThink

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Alan Alda