Alec Baldwin Quotes

If Obama was white, he'd be up by 17 points.

When I am sitting home, and I am happy and I have my TV show and I don't need to work and I'm married now and I like to be in line by my pool with my yoga instructor wife and eating fruit and taking in the sun, then life is good.

You ask me if I have a God complex? Let me tell you something - I am God.

I never walked out the door and said, "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest Baldwin brother of them all?"

I am so much of a mind now to be in the audience, to watch and to experience, and to feel, rather than having to get up and perform, I want my life to be less about performing.

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.

You can tell Gov. Bush to rest assured that I'm not going to leave the country because we have to get him out of office and we have to get his brother out of office in 2004. We're not resting until we get that done.

I suppose if the offending paparazzi was wearing a hoodie and I shot him, it would all blow over.

I was very competitive with my brothers when I was younger. Now we are all in completely different worlds. Im not in direct competition with my brothers for anything, ever. Stephen and I and Billy and I are better at staying in touch with each other. Danny is married, he has a new baby and he is very peripatetic, he goes to golfing tournaments and charity things. He really travels a lot.

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.

If we were in another country, we would stone Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes and kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families, for what they're doing to this country.

I'm the kind of person who does not want to be anywhere that I'm not wanted.

I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked.

Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.

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 don't think I really have a talent for movie acting.

Getting older is hard.

It is imperative that we replace those who think they own this country, with those who built it.

Well, actors get very frustrated with giving control to other people. They have their own ideas and wants for their characters. Warren Beatty once told me that he thought actors ended up directing out of frustration. If you have a strong sense of how to communicate a film, you should direct. The problem is that it is a huge commitment. I'd rather direct a play than a film due to the time. A movie can tie you up for a year or more.

Down with Dukes of Hazzard!

I'm a pretty loyal person.

I'd do anything to have more kids. But that's probably not gonna happen now.

I am still playing 'Words With Friends,' but on Virgin Atlantic.

I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation.

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.

When I get onstage in a play, I feel very safe, very protected, very fulfilled.

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.

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.

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.

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'd do anything to have more kids.

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.

I would like to devote myself to the cause of parental alienation.

We both grew into the people we wanted each other to be.

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 do admire [Willie] Wonka. He's a true capitalist. His factory has zero government regulations, slave labor and an indoor boat. Wonderful.

Behind each number is a person, a victim, whose individual story is ghastly.

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.

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.

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.

Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with.

You've got to see someone at their worst and ask yourself if you can handle it.

When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out.

I probably have to move out of New York. I just can't live in New York anymore.

How can we turn our back on an endeavor which increases our children's cultural intelligence, heightens individual sensitivity and deepens our collective sense of humanity? I suggest to you that we cannot.

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 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.

Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn't get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he's the sheriff; now he's running around writing everybody a ticket!

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 believe we can balance the scales if Tom Cruise would lower his quote by a mere $29 million ... I assure you my salary would not make a difference. My annual salary is the budget for Altoids on one of Tom's movies.

Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.

Once you've found some joy, you never want to be without it.

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.

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.

Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted.

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.

If you do get married, get a prenup. It's not about money at all. It's about having a document that states how you'll dissolve your marriage while you still have a shred of respect for each other.

For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally.

Do I regret getting married? It's hard for me to say anything because ultimately we're talking about the mother of my child.

To me, the Republican Party is the real great tragedy of the last 25 years because there are lot of good and decent people and a lot of good political points [that have] come from the Republican Party in the post-war period, but it has been hijacked by these fundamentalist wackos.