Quote

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

Alan Alda

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alan Alda
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: January 28
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Podcaster
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Television Director
Television Presenter
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
Alphonso Joseph D’Abruzzo
Manipulation
Manipulate
Image
Tried
Never

More quotes by Alan Alda

Image
What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
Alan Alda
Image
Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
Alan Alda
Image
I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
Alan Alda
Image
Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
Alan Alda
Image
I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
Alan Alda
Image
Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.
Alan Alda
Image
In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.
Alan Alda
Image
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.
Alan Alda
Image
It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
Alan Alda
Image
War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
Alan Alda
Image
When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn't leave until they're 20.
Alan Alda
Image
It's always better to be wise than to be smart.
Alan Alda
Image
My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
Alan Alda
Image
The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
Alan Alda
Image
Be brave enough to live creatively.
Alan Alda
Image
Jean Paul Sartre says in No Exit that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
Alan Alda
Image
If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.
Alan Alda
Image
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
Image
I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
Alan Alda
Image
When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.
Alan Alda