Alan Alda Life Quotations

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Backstage life is terrific training for an actor, seeing shows from the wings.

When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might last?' I've read that the average age of a species, of any species, is about two million years. Is it possible we can have an average life span as a species? And do you picture us two million years more or a million and a half years, or 5,000?

I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for improving myself in many ways, including everyday tasks.

What's funny is that you can think you really value your life until you almost lose it.

Life is great-I wouldn't know what I'd do without it.

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.