Quotes from Alan Alda

The meaning of life is life.

Kids are natural scientists.

I must have interviewed 600 or 700 scientists all around the world.

I think it's important for scientists to speak in their own voices and not just be mediated by journalists or others speaking for them.

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.

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?

I know there's a creative side to artists to - pardon me - there's a creative side to scientists already, but there may be an artistic side, too, waiting to break free.

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.

My father sang well, and he was a handsome man. When he walked down the street, people sometimes mistook him for Cary Grant and asked for his autograph.

I feel like every time a door is opened by science, suddenly there are a hundred doors that need to get opened. That's what makes it an everlasting, interesting experience to go through.

I think I look better in a suit than a loincloth. So that may define some of the parts I play.

I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.

The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.

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.

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe -- you can't take a taxi.

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don't doubt yourself.

... life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.

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.

If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing each other.

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.

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.