Alan Alda
Alan Alda (born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo; January 28, 1936) is 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 (1972-1983) and Arnold Vinick in The West Wing (2004-2006).
Quotes
- The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
- as interviewed on NPR's Here & Now, "A Conversation with Alan Alda", September 13, 2007.
- My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six.
- in his memoir Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned, Random House, 2005, ISBN 1400064090.
- … 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.
- You don't put statistics on trial, you put individuals on tial.
- From Extended Brains on Trial - Published on Sep 19, 2013
About Alan Alda
- I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
- James Lipton from Inside Actor's Studio, season 6 episode 11.
External links
- Alda's motivational graduation speech at Connecticut College
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