I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I … - Alan Alda

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.

Alan Alda

I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.

Children, Kill, Mother, Psychotic, Thinking, Thinks

Same Author Quotes

There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well - that really makes me happy. The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.

Helpful, Pleasure, Things, Two

I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.

Gravitate, Half, People, Play, Tennis

Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won't do what you've done before.

Beginning, Done, Good, Mystified

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.

Actors, Artist, Personal, True, Use

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

Communicating, Interest, Rest, Scientist, Wonderful

Similar Quotes

Garry Trudeau

I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.

Day, Day Well Spent, Fellow, Interested, Parades, Passing

Julian Jaynes

Indeed, it is sometimes almost as if the problem had to be forgotten to be solved.

Problem, Sometimes, Forgotten, Solved

Peter Matthiessen

I like to hear and smell the countryside, the land that my characters inhabit. I don’t want these characters to step off the page, I want them to step out of the landscape.

Character, Countryside, Land, Page, Smell

Mulgrew Miller

Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively.

Can Do, Creatively, Express Yourself, Jazz, Society, Things

Yevgeny Zamyatin

what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about

Absurd, Idiotically, Inspired, Poet, Primitive, Taste