Alan Alda
Alan Alda
Alan Aldais an American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, he is widely known for his roles as Captain Hawkeye Pierce in the TV series M*A*S*H and Arnold Vinick in The West Wing. He has also appeared in many feature films, most notably in Crimes and Misdemeanorsas pretentious television producer Lester and in The Aviatoras U.S. Senator Owen Brewster, the latter of which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth28 January 1936
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I've never tried to manipulate my image.
The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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.
Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.
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.
We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
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.
Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be.
I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
I don't miss directing at all, and I don't miss screenwriting either because somebody's always telling you to do something different.
It's a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleagues and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children.
I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.