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
Alan Alda quotes about
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'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.
Why would you give money to somebody whose work you don't understand?
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.
If scientists could communicate more in their own voices - in a familiar tone, with a less specialized vocabulary - would a wide range of people understand them better? Would their work be better understood by the general public, policy-makers, funders, and, even in some cases, other scientists?
I love to watch how scientists' minds work.
When they called me up and asked me if I wanted to work with them, they just told me a little bit about the character and the story. They hadn't finished writing it yet. He's a very three-dimensional character, which is really what I've always looked forward to playing in any story I was in.
Marie Curie is my hero. Few people have accomplished something so rare - changing science. And as hard as that is, she had to do it against the tide of the culture at the time - the prejudice against her as a foreigner, because she was born in Poland and worked in France. And the prejudice against her as a woman.
Others will step in and do his job with excellence. But no one can replace the unique person that was Peter.
I think the audience was aware that even when it was farcical, there was the sense that at some level this was about real experience.
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned
The creative is the place where no one else have ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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.
No one can replace a unique person like Peter.