Alan Alda
Alan Alda (born Alfonso Joseph D'Abruzzo on January 28, 1936) is an Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American actor, writer, director and sometime political activist. He is most famous for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the television series M*A*S*H. In the 1970s and 1980s he was viewed as the archetypal "sensitive male," though in recent years he has appeared in roles which counter that image.
5 Quotes
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
It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
— Alan Alda
ORIGINALITY is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe -- you can't take a taxi.
— Alan Alda
Be brave enough to live creatively. 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. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself.
— Alan Alda
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
— Alan Alda