I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

Alda frames performance not as a later-acquired skill but as an origin story: the stage is portrayed as his natural habitat. By pointing to being brought onstage as an infant, he emphasizes how deeply show business is woven into his identity and comfort zone. The remark also nods to the family-and-travel realities of theatrical life—children of performers often grow up in backstage spaces and on tour—suggesting that his ease with acting and public communication comes from early immersion rather than mere ambition. The quote functions as a compact autobiography: vocation becomes upbringing, and “home” becomes a metaphor for belonging and selfhood.