Alec Baldwin
Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with.
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 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 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.
When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out.
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 think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing.
I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will.
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.
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.
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.
If Obama was white, he’d be up by 17 points.Collection: White
One of the truest things to commit to is your own nature.Collection: Commit
Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in.Collection: Book
You ask me if I have a God complex? Let me tell you something — I am God.Collection: God Complex
I suppose if the offending paparazzi was wearing a hoodie and I shot him, it would all blow over.Collection: Blow
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.Collection: Real
I do admire [Willie] Wonka. He's a true capitalist. His factory has zero government regulations, slave labor and an indoor boat. Wonderful.Collection: Zero
Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted.Collection: Badass
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.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Country
Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the environment and do it for your health.Collection: Animal
New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.Collection: New York
Behind each number is a person, a victim, whose individual story is ghastly.Collection: Numbers
You've got to see someone at their worst and ask yourself if you can handle it.Collection: Worst
I never walked out the door and said, "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest Baldwin brother of them all?"Collection: Brother
Do I regret getting married? It's hard for me to say anything because ultimately we're talking about the mother of my child.Collection: Mother
If I add a negative element to the piece, you are not a villain necessarily but you bring a stronger, more negative aspect to the film, and if you don't do that, the film goes off balance where you can't worry about likability, you have to come in and play the part the best way that you can.Collection: Play
I am still playing 'Words With Friends,' but on Virgin Atlantic.Collection: Virgins
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.Collection: Movie
Never go with a hippie to a second location.Collection: Hippie
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!Collection: Running
Most women in leading roles are very boyish looking. The one girl working right now who I think is a real beauty in a classic sense - the only real 12-cylinder engine - is Catherine Zeta-Jones.Collection: Girl
The leadership class of the Republican Party is a conservative Christian loony bin. The leadership of the Republican Party are a bunch of sociopathic maniacs who have their lips super-glued to the ass of the conservative right.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Married
All those animals live a pretty dreary life, then they get chopped up and put on a griddle.Collection: Animal
You can be someone running...who is just a soaring leader of people. But if you don't have the finances down, you're going to have a problem.Collection: Education
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.Collection: Country
Denzel Washington's career is an enormous luxury. Compare him to Wesley Snipes.Collection: Careers
Rolling torture wagons for nature's most dignified creature.Collection: Rolling
I think the older I've gotten the more, like most people, my appreciation shifts towards things that are very difficult, where you see people who have put in tremendous hours and hours of commitment.Collection: Appreciation
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.Collection: Yoga
One generation might like you, then 15 years later the next is responding to somebody else.Collection: Years
[American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over.Collection: Night
Paul McCartney is a genius ... Paul married Rock & Roll to beauty, and forever raised the bar for composers, musicians, and fans ... an incredible solo performer ... the creator of our favorite songs.Collection: Song
Marriage changes things because there's a lot more at stake. You can't get too toxic because you have to live together. No one can reach for the nuclear button too quickly.Collection: Marriage
Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And thats the terrible conflict. You have to be free to jump off into that volcano and you have to be pathologically self-conscious.Collection: Volcanoes
I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting. I'm not bad at it, but I don't think I really have a talent for it.Collection: Thinking
I probably have to move out of New York. I just can’t live in New York anymore.Collection: New York