Top 186 Quotes & Sayings by Alec Baldwin
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Last updated on December 3, 2024.
Doing these parts is not fun. It's challenging, but no fun. It's creepy. I would rather play the guy that throws the touchdown pass and gets carried off the field.
Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor.
People don't understand this: if you want to have a really good shot at succeeding, there are doors you have to slam in people's faces and say, 'This is my priority, and you can't depend on me to help you.' I was never good at that.
I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.
'The Apprentice' was a huge success, and Trump was a huge television star who managed to trick people into thinking he was the guy from the show.
I collect travel alarm clocks. I was in a flea market in France once, in 1994, and I opened up this beautiful Jaeger-LeCoultre folding eight-day winding clock folded into a beautiful case, and I went, 'Wow, man.' And I've been collecting travel alarm clocks since 1994.
The campaign finance scandal in America is the global warming of American political life - with cash substituting for deadly solar radiation.
My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn't commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didn't go all the way with just being completely selfish. I always wonder where my career would be if I was more selfish.
I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue.
The Trump name is now going to mean something else.
I find myself bitter, defensive, and more misanthropic than I care to admit.
I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will.
Acting in the theatre is fun; acting in film is work.
I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing. We had to amuse ourselves, so we had to become amusing.
I don't want to be throwing the football on the front yard when I'm 75. I mean, I'm not opposed to men doing that. But I don't think it's gonna work for me.
Down with Dukes of Hazzard!
Some days you're the kid with the stick, some days you're the pinata.
The way we produce food is killing the land and water.
I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.
Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.
So Colleen Atwood introduced me to Armani for the fabric and the dyes - what made Armani, Armani, beyond his motion-picture credentials. It was Cerruti after that. And then Zegna.
I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I'm not necessarily going to leave the United States.
If I won the lottery tomorrow, I probably would never work again.
I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting.
I'm the kind of person who does not want to be anywhere that I'm not wanted.
Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.
Everything I do is about my kids and wife and how we can all be together.
Morning Joe was boring. Scarborough is neither eloquent nor funny.
In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different.
To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.
There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.
Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.
I wear a Zegna suit and tie every day, pretty much.
Have I thought about having more kids? Oh sure, that would be great; that would be heaven. That would be fantastic.
I did not have a happy family life a few years ago. I was divorced, and I was very alienated from my daughter, and I was out there cutting every ribbon and running around New York hosting events for different causes to supplant my loss because I didn't have a family to go home to. Now I don't want to be Mr. Show Business anymore.
We need more participation, so when I see someone like Trump, I go, 'You know something? Good for him'. I may not support him, but let him run.
Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.
I don't try to communicate with my 'audience'. I don't bother with that any more. I used to try to have conversations with people, but it's futile.
If you're going to have someone defend you, it doesn't get any better than Kristen Stewart.
Ultraconservatism is, to me, so illogical. Everywhere you go, conservatives want to cut, cut, cut, cut - cut money for powerless people. So, that's the biggest problem I have with them.
I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie.
I never thought of myself as a wealthy person. I've thought of myself as a person who has had a lot of luck. I don't have the same stress that other people have, but there are too many things I could have done differently if wealth was what I was after. If I was all about money, I would have lived in L.A.
My goal was always to take a talk show to the network. I never wanted to be on MSNBC.
Manhattan is like Beverly Hills. And the soul of New York has moved to Brooklyn, where everything new and exciting seems to be.
As my friend said to me, when you have children, typically in a second marriage, when you're older and you get married again to a woman who would have children, you must always remember that you make sure the children attend a college where the commencement ceremonies are held in a facility with a wheelchair accessible ramp.
My wife is the greatest person I have ever known. She is just a living doll; she is great person and a great mom. We have a girl and a boy, and we are going to have another boy.
When I get onstage in a play, I feel very safe, very protected, very fulfilled.
I think Jerry Lee is sad. As a musician, he was far more talented than Elvis Presley. Everybody down in Memphis knows that. Elvis became a movie star because he was beautiful. Not that Elvis wasn't talented, but Jerry Lee Lewis was incomprehensibly talented as a musician.
I'd do anything to have more kids. But that's probably not gonna happen now.
I have no desire to run for public office.
I think Rachel Maddow is quite good at what she does. I also think she's a phony who doesn't have the same passion for the truth off-camera that she seems to have on the air.
Everybody has their own taste, and I allow for that, but personally, I don't like a striped tie on a striped shirt. I don't like brown shoes with a blue suit. Cordovan maybe, but not brown.
You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.
I won every award you could win in television. I got paid well. And people loved '30 Rock'. And I loved '30 Rock'. I mean, sometimes you do a show that's a hit show, and you hate it.
For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally.
Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie.
My brothers were funny, and there was a lot of shtick and comedy and nastiness and violence and fighting and sports.
There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap.
Getting older is hard.
Everybody had posters in their room; everybody had the four symbols of Zeppelin on the wall and all that.
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