What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer. Not as somebody with a particular idea to sell, or something like that. Alan Alda Read Quote
I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don’t strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally. Alan Alda Read Quote
When I got recognized as a writer, when I got the Emmy, I was more excited than the Emmys I had gotten as an actor. Alan Alda Read Quote
You know what my earliest memories are? Going from one burlesque town to another. My father was in burlesque. Alan Alda Read Quote
Anyone I know who’s almost died has come out of it, at least for a while, looking at things differently. Alan Alda Read Quote
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? Alan Alda Read Quote
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. Alan Alda Read Quote
