A renowned actor, writer and director, Alan Alda turns 81 on January 28, 2017. Alda earned recognition for his excellent work all over the world. The ace artiste has been nominated for an EMMY 34 times and won 7 EMMYs. He has the distinction of being nominated for an Oscar, a Tony, and an EMMY and publishing a bestselling book – all in the same year (2005).
Alda also won the Director’s Guild Award three times, received six Golden Globes, and won seven People’s Choice Awards. For over 20 years he has worked to help widen the public’s understanding of science. Here are some of his golden words to make your day:
- 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.
- Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.
- Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
- Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
- When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
- It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
- 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.
- If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
- My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
- Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
