Alec Baldwin Quotes
Actor, Producer
Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.
I know there's an impression that I'm someone who seeks to have violent confrontations with people. I don't. Do I regret screaming at some guy who practically clipped my kid in the head with the lens of a camera? Yeah, I probably do, because it's only caused me problems.
Manhattan is like Beverly Hills. And the soul of New York has moved to Brooklyn, where everything new and exciting seems to be.
I wear a Zegna suit and tie every day, pretty much.
My children are the only thing in my life that makes me happy.
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.
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.
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.
Some days you're the kid with the stick, some days you're the pinata.
I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!
Hollywood does draw some very strange characters, and then the power of Hollywood and what they can do with it becomes like a blood sport to them.
I'm going to stop giving too much money to charity - the charity is going to become my family. I'm only half-kidding.
If you're going to have someone defend you, it doesn't get any better than Kristen Stewart.
My father would chaperone at high-school dances, and the toughest guy in the high school used to want to fight my father. My father broke his hand on a guy's head once in school.
When I get onstage in a play, I feel very safe, very protected, very fulfilled.
I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked.
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.
I find myself bitter, defensive, and more misanthropic than I care to admit.
I'd do anything to have more kids. But that's probably not gonna happen now.
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 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.
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.
I don't hate Trump, but he's not somebody I admire.
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.
I've had a relatively charmed life. I loved to be out in the city. New York was my town. I've had people come up to me and say, 'You're a great New Yorker. You've given your time and money to so many New York charities. You're a great supporter of the arts. I like some of your movies - and some of your movies suck, actually.'
Everybody had posters in their room; everybody had the four symbols of Zeppelin on the wall and all that.
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.
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.
New York... where people come for their Ph.D. in corruption.
To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.
There's almost no popular music I listen to now. I'll hear it because it's everywhere... Music is ubiquitous now.
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.
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.
There's three things: there's masculinity, there's intelligence, there's sensitivity. You've got to bring those three things to a leading man's role: masculinity, sensitivity, intelligence. In some people, there's a little too much in the mix of one or the other.
'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 wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.
In the film business, when you're young, you just want to work. But when you're older, it has more to do with who's involved with the project - who you're going to get in the boat with.
I know women that act queeny, I know men that are straight that act queeny, and I know gay men that act queeny... To me, those are people who think the rules don't apply to them.
The wealthy don't have any sense of humor. It's not like the English, where the theater is perhaps the one place where they have a sense of humor about themselves.
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.
Down with Dukes of Hazzard!
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.
Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.
Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.
I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting.
I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie.
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.
Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.
There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.
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.
I don't need to be married to Georgia O'Keeffe or Lillian Hellman, but I like being with a woman I can look up to.
I'm a pretty loyal person.
When I'm not working, I dress like a surfer. I look like I'm going to come into your house and clean your pool.
I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that I would have to sell real estate in New York City to look after my family, that would be fine with me.
A lot of people want to not wear a tie when they go to a restaurant. They feel they don't have to wear a tie. I think it's kind of a statement they're making. I don't know what that statement is. I haven't quite figured that out yet.
I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation.
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.
I'm the kind of person who does not want to be anywhere that I'm not wanted.
For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally.
Getting older is hard.
Often in films, you have no idea where you're going to be six months from now. And I grew very weary of that. And television, although it wasn't necessarily as creatively diverse as filmmaking can be, it was the lifestyle choice that I needed to make.
I was in college in Washington, D.C. I did three years full-time. I did all my requirements, and my senior year was really a gut year. And I said, 'Law school will always be there.' I was in no hurry to get right into that.
I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing.
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.
When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out.
I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married.
I remember during my lifetime I would meet women, and it was almost like God would say to me, 'Now, this woman here is not the one you are going to end up with, but she is going to be a lot like this woman; look at this woman, study this woman.' And when my wife showed up, He was like, 'You recognize her now?'
I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will.
I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.
Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with.
I'd rather live my life off screen and give only a certain amount of energy to the work.
I have my older daughter Ireland and my wife Hilaria, and I have Carmen and Rafael.
You have a lot of optimism when you are young.
Grown-ups yell. I don't know why, but they do.
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.
Have I thought about having more kids? Oh sure, that would be great; that would be heaven. That would be fantastic.
On a television show, precise acting isn't the order of the day.
When you're with someone, you want everything to be great. And that's the pressure that you put on, and what you just can't do.
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.
We all have that moment when we think, 'Hand me that Oscar now - you don't even have to have the ceremony'.
I know some people who live this much more insulated life in Los Angeles, where their feet never touch public ground. They walk out of their bathroom, their living room, they get into their garage, their car, and the next thing you know, they're at the valet parking of the restaurant or the store or the office. They're in a bubble the whole time.
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.
I turned popular music on the radio, and I never listened to it again after that, in about 1985. That's when I switched over to classical music, and I pretty much stayed with that since then.
My brothers were funny, and there was a lot of shtick and comedy and nastiness and violence and fighting and sports.
Being able to stay home with my children is what I prefer.
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 think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing. We had to amuse ourselves, so we had to become amusing.
I have always wanted to do a show where I could stay home. When you make movies, you might as well take a dart and throw it at a map.
When you lack a certain vitality in the film business, there's no hiding it. It's like you've had your limb chopped off. How do you hide the fact that you're missing an arm?
There are shows that are monolithic successes on TV that nobody in the business ever watches one episode of.
Everything I do is about my kids and wife and how we can all be together.
I worked all the time. Every moment I wasn't working, I was home with my family. I got divorced. And now I'm doing it all over again, and I've learned that the key is, I've got to work less.
I started out as an actor, where you seek to understand yourself using the words of great writers and collaborating with other creative people. Then I slid into show business, where you seek only an audience's approval whether you deserve it or not.
I loathe and despise the media in a way I did not think possible.
I haven't changed, but public life has. It used to be you'd go into a restaurant, and the owner would say, 'Do you mind if I take a picture of you and put it on my wall?' Sweet and simple. Now, everyone has a camera in their pocket.
I want to go make a movie and be very present for that and give it everything I have, and after we're done, then the rest of the time is mine.
Am I a homophobe? Look, I work in show business. I am awash in gay people, as colleagues and as friends.
There are some times when you make films and you travel places, and the take that people in the business have is that the worst way to see a city is to shoot there, because you work these long 12, 13 and 14-hour days, and you go home to the hotel, you eat, and you pass out.
I need to be home more. That's the goal now. I have a steady flow of things people want me to do.
Everything I hated about L.A. I'm beginning to crave. L.A. is a place where you live behind a gate, you get in a car, your interaction with the public is minimal. I used to hate that.