Alec Baldwin Quotes

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. ~ Alec Baldwin

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. ~ Alec Baldwin

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. ~ Alec Baldwin

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! ~ Alec Baldwin

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. ~ Alec Baldwin

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. ~ Alec Baldwin

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. ~ Alec Baldwin

(I)f France's righteous bloviating against war makes them your Dashboard Saint of International Integrity, it's either because you are sand-poundingly ignorant of how the world works or it's because you think France's self-interest is more important than America's. If the former applies to you, read a book. If it's the latter, maybe you should move there along with Alec Baldwin, Robert Altman, and the rest of the crowd who promised to leave a long time ago. But whatever you do, don't call France's position principled, because that just insults us both. ~ Jonah Goldberg

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. ~ Alec Baldwin

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. ~ Alec Baldwin

If somebody wants to book Alec Baldwin on one of our shows, and he wants to come on and talk to our people and say what he wants, I don't care. We would question him on his choice of words. ~ Roger Ailes

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

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

If the media isn't slanted toward the Left, why is everyone so worried about my affiliation with Glenn Beck but not with Alec Baldwin? ~ Adam Carolla

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

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. ~ Alec Baldwin

I'm a pretty loyal person. ~ Alec Baldwin

We've had some really good guest stars. But I have to go with Alec Baldwin as my favorite. He is so neat and such a movie star. He's handsome and quirky. I was in heaven the week he was on the set. ~ Nikki Cox

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

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. ~ Alec Baldwin

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Alec Baldwin

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. ~ Alec Baldwin

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. ~ Alec Baldwin

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

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. ~ Alec Baldwin

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

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. ~ Alec Baldwin

I've got to say that I don't see myself as some sort of political type like Alec Baldwin or Barbra Streisand. I don't want to come across like that. I'd be embarrassed if that was the way I came across. ~ Drew Carey

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. ~ Alec Baldwin

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. ~ Alec Baldwin

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. ~ Alec Baldwin

Alec Baldwin made us all feel like [we could] pal around with him and come up with the best scenarios or scenarios if you're a f - king asshole. So working with him was Alec Baldwin does it the best. ~ Kate Hudson

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

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

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

I don't want to alarm anyone, but everywhere we go I see Alec Baldwin. It's like he's following us. ~ Olivia Sudjic

John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy. ~ Michael Imperioli

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

Well if I had my choice I would not - I wouldn't mind working with Alec Baldwin, but the mother role - I'm kidding. It's terrific. I'll tell you what happened with Alec Baldwin and myself. This is a couple acting together just this side of heaven. He's one of the best actors I've ever worked with in whole life. And I - I'm not overdoing it. I just think he's about the best around today. So I got lucky. ~ Elaine Stritch

Alec Baldwin is an incredible ... I mean this guy is a tour de force when you talk about people that are generous and available and somebody you could approach and I have ideas. ~ Kate Hudson

Bush is a frat boy in the White House but we've had that before. But I wasn't one of those people that was threatening to leave the country. By the way none of those people have left the country. Alec Baldwin is still here. ~ Harry Shearer

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

It's fascinating. It's also exhilarating when you see people making the exact same choices that you've made. It kind of validates what you've decided to do. I saw a wonderful production of Jessica Lange doing Streetcar with Alec Baldwin. It was gorgeous. It's a measure of what a great classic that is, that our Cate Blanchett also did an absolute amazing Blanche in Sydney, as well as in New York. ~ Jacki Weaver

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

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. ~ Alec Baldwin

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Alec Baldwin

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

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. ~ Alec Baldwin

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. ~ Alec Baldwin

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. ~ Alec Baldwin

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. ~ Alec Baldwin

Alec Baldwin is so funny. ~ Ryan Lochte

Getting older is hard. ~ Alec Baldwin

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. ~ Alec Baldwin

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

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

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. ~ Alec Baldwin

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. ~ Alec Baldwin

Batman is not a very interesting character. For any actor. There is simply not much to play. I think Michael Keaton did it the best, and I wish good luck to Ben Affleck. But, you know who would have made a great Batman? Alec Baldwin in the '80s. ~ Quentin Tarantino

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

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. ~ Alec Baldwin

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. ~ Alec Baldwin

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

I'd do anything to have more kids. ~ Alec Baldwin

I love working with Alec Baldwin. He's one of the five greatest actors ever to live. ~ Tracy Morgan

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

I traveled and worked with amazing actors, like Andy Garcia, Alec Baldwin, Brendan Fraser, Forest Whitaker, Lee Pace. It was this great learning experience. And then, I started watching a lot of television. I was always in these foreign countries and I would get TV shows on DVD, and I started to realize that all of the amazing roles for women were on television. I was spoiled by Buffy because I thought that was the way it was everywhere, and it's not. ~ Sarah Michelle Gellar

Down with Dukes of Hazzard! ~ Alec Baldwin

You know, and I know, that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon. ~ James Baldwin

Every generation proclaims that each must lead his own life, but seldom grants the subsequent generation the right to lead theirs. ~ Faith Baldwin

She knew that the only love her demon was capable of was self-destructive, cruel, vampiric, parasitic, and all the other words her best friends had used to describe Jerry, Alec, Christian, Matt, and the others whose names, faces, and genitalia had now blurred together in her memories. They were men incapable of love yet able to inspire suicide threats. ~ Nancy A. Collins

Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations. ~ Alec-Tweedie

Magnus's life was crowded with strange incidents and stranger people. Alec did not know a lot about it yet, but he could learn, and he knew one thing. His sister had said that a trip was how you got to truly know each other, and Alec was absolutely sure that in the bright chaos of his long, strange life, Magnus had stayed kind. ~ Cassandra Clare

You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat ya with until you realize who's in ruttin' command here! ~ Adam Baldwin

I learned to paint at home from my mom. She was a very good teacher, but with spray paint, I taught myself. Spray paint is impossible. They say it takes a decade to really learn spray paint and be good with it. I've been at it about ten years now and am now really just getting good and confident with it. ~ Alec Monopoly

Look. I don't want to push you into anything, but do you maybe want to - " "Call Magnus? Look, that's a dead end, I know you're trying to be helpful, but - "
" - kiss me?" Jace finished.
Alec looked as if he were about to fall off his chair. "WHAT? What? What?"
"Once what would do." Jace did his best to look as if this were the sort of
suggestion one made all the time. "I think it might help."
Alec looked at him with something like horror. "You don't mean that."
"Why wouldn't I mean it?"
"Because you're the straightest person I know. Possibly the straightest
person in the universe."
"Exactly," Jace said, and leaned forward, and kissed Alec on the mouth.
The kiss lasted approximately four seconds before Alec pulled forcefully
away, throwing his hands up as if to ward Jace off from coming at him again.
He looked as if he were about to throw up. "By the Angel," he said. "Don't
ever do that again."
"Oh yeah?" Jace grinned, and almost meant it. "That bad?"
"Like kissing my brother," said Alec, with a look of horror in his eyes.
"I thought you might feel that way." Jace crossed his arms over his chest.
"Also, I'm hoping we can just gloss over all the irony in what you just said."
"We can gloss over whatever you want to," Alec said fervently. "Just don't kiss me again. ~ Cassandra Clare

I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in. ~ Alec Soth

In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves. ~ Christina Baldwin

I did not make a pie," Alec repeated, gesturing expressively with one hand, "for three reasons. One, because I do not have any pie ingredients. Two, because I don't actually
know how to make a pie."
He paused, clearly waiting.
Removing his sword and leaning it against the cave wall, Jace said warily, "And three?"
"Because I am not your bitch," Alec said, clearly pleased with himself. ~ Cassandra Clare

Go and change your gown, Mary," Daniel interjected. "I'm partial to gold. If you've a gown in that color, wear it to please me. If not, white will do well enough. I'm wedding you, Lady Mary."
Lord Daniel Ferguson caught Lady Mary before she hit the floor. He wasn't at all irritated that his intended had just fainted dead away, and he actually let out a full burst of laughter as he swept Mary up into his arms and held her against his chest.
"She's overcome with gratitude, Alec," Daniel called out to his friend.
"Aye, Daniel, I can see she is," Alec answered. ~ Julie Garwood

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. ~ James A. Baldwin

The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross. ~ James A. Baldwin

If you say you had a zen moment, you already didn't. ~ Alec Sulkin

Every white person in this country-and I do not care what he or she says-knows one thing. They may not know, as they put, "what I want",but they know they would not like to be black here.
If they know that, then they know everything they need to know, and whatever else they say is a lie. ~ James Baldwin

I closed my eyes and wished I believed in something enough to pray to it. ~ George Alec Effinger

She sensed that what her aunt spoke of as love was something else - a bribe, a threat, an indecent will to power. She knew that the kind of imprisonment that love might impose was also, mysteriously, a freedom for the soul and spirit, was water in the dry place, and had nothing to do with the prisons, churches, laws, rewards, and punishments, that so positively cluttered the landscape of her aunt's mind. ~ James Baldwin

We held each other so close that we might indeed have been one body. ~ James Baldwin

Dawn is breaking, sending pale fingers of cold light across the hills that surround the Harrisons' farmyard. Jess is being difficult, rearing and trying to bolt away from the truck, and we've been at it for some time when Liam comes out of the house and sees our predicament. He marches across the yard, picks up a piece of cut-off hosepipe and walks up behind the pony. I see the look on Alec's face as his dad approaches, and he's not happy. Liam tells his son to "walk her up" and then cracks the mare around the rump with the piece of pipe when she plants her feet. The sound of the pipe hitting the pony echoes across the hills and rings in my ears. Jess starts to rear but earns another whack around the backside, so scrambles up the ramp and stands trembling in the truck. Alec quickly ties her up, his expression unreadable. ~ Kate Lattey

To be in good company is to be alone and be in good company. ~ C. Dale Baldwin

I don't know any writers who don't drink. ~ James Baldwin

Despair is our chance to wrestle with fire and come through. ~ Christina Baldwin

I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those you admired. ~ Roger Nash Baldwin