Alec Baldwin Quotes

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.

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.

I’m a pretty loyal person.

Morning Joe was boring. Scarborough is neither eloquent nor funny.

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

I think I’m just like a lot of people who had nothing.

All actors have a significant amount of vanity about work, and necessarily so. Things they will do and won’t do, and I’ve completely lost all of that. I don’t care.

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

My whole life is classical now. Except my wife. I don’t have a classical wife. I have a classy wife, but I don’t have a classical wife.

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.

America is competitive. We compete with each other every day.

I have been driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years now. You have to go through this to understand.

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 find myself bitter, defensive, and more misanthropic than I care to admit.

I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie.

Down with Dukes of Hazzard!

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.

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.

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 want my weekends back so I can be with my kids.

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.

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

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 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 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.

There are shows that are monolithic successes on TV that nobody in the business ever watches one episode of.

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

Some days you’re the kid with the stick, some days you’re the pinata.

The Trump name is now going to mean something else.

If MSNBC went off the air tomorrow, what difference would it make? If the ‘Huffington Post’ went out of business tomorrow, what difference would it make?

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

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 don’t hate Trump, but he’s not somebody I admire.

I wear a Zegna suit and tie every day, pretty much.

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.

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 need to be home more. That’s the goal now. I have a steady flow of things people want me to do.

As a lifelong Democrat, I never thought I’d lead an effort to defend the symbol of the Republican Party. But when I saw the cruelty that Ringling inflicts on elephants every day across the country, I had to speak up.

I don’t get acting jobs because of my looks.

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?’

If you’re going to have someone defend you, it doesn’t get any better than Kristen Stewart.

There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.

My brothers and I grew up in a time where talking, storytelling, telling jokes was sometimes all you had. It wasn’t like today, with so many options and portability.

Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain’t over ’til you both get your cookie.

Twitter and Tumblr and Vine and Instagram and Facebook and Myspace, all these things are social media tools that we were all told we had to have, and what we’re realizing is that, no you don’t! No you don’t.

Manhattan is like Beverly Hills. And the soul of New York has moved to Brooklyn, where everything new and exciting seems to be.

I have my older daughter Ireland and my wife Hilaria, and I have Carmen and Rafael.

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.

My goal was always to take a talk show to the network. I never wanted to be on MSNBC.

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

Men are literally lying in bed with their wives when the marriage is essentially over, thinking, ‘I’ve got to get the hell out of here’, and have a fantasy woman in mind. Then you get divorced, meet a woman, marry her, and by the time all that goes by, you’ve aged a few years and are ready to go back to your ex-wife.

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.

If Hank Williams Jr. wasn’t such a pathetic, wheezing fossil, I’d have a talk with him.

The harshest thing I can say is I was married to someone for whom all dissent was abuse. If you had your own opinion, you were abusive.

My children are the only thing in my life that makes me happy.

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

The way we produce food is killing the land and water.

There’s a way I could have done things differently. I know that. If I offended anyone along the way, I do apologize.

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.

Some days you’re the kid with the stick, some days you’re the pinata.

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.

Am I a homophobe? Look, I work in show business. I am awash in gay people, as colleagues and as friends.

We all have that moment when we think, ‘Hand me that Oscar now – you don’t even have to have the ceremony’.

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 just can’t live in New York anymore.

I’m going to stop giving too much money to charity – the charity is going to become my family. I’m only half-kidding.

Nobody cares about your autograph. There are cameras everywhere, and there are media outlets for them to ‘file their story’.

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.

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.