“Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.”
Alan Alda“War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.”
Alan Alda“I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.”
Alan Alda“If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.”
Alan Alda“The one thing I think I've noticed about shows that are supposed to be funny on television is that they've sort of become routinized, so there's an awful lot of mannerisms and joke lines that are sort of there to trigger laughter, rather than give actors a chance to play a moment.”
Alan Alda“Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.”
Alan Alda“I would like to know that when I read the paper in the morning, it's telling me something that actually happened, and I think the vast majority of journalists want the same thing.”
Alan Alda“Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.”
Alan Alda“When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.”
Alan Alda“We need to be more conversant with it because science is in our lives. It's in everything. It's in the food we eat. It's in the air we breathe. It's everywhere.”
Alan Alda“It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.”
Alan Alda