Alan Alda Quotes

I try to spend as little time thinking about myself as possible. I find that's not a constructive way to live.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

My life is an open pamphlet.

The feeling of self-discovery, for me, is perennial.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

One of my problems is to find the self.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

I come out of real life.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

What I use when I'm acting comes from what I learn about myself.

I'm finding myself. I'm finding things I'm good at, things I need to work at.

I just keep surprising myself, I guess.

My life hasn't been all about politics.