Quotes of Alec Baldwin - somelinesforyou

“ I did not have a happy family life a few years ago. I was divorced, and I was very alienated from my daughter, and I was out there cutting every ribbon and running around New York hosting events for different causes to supplant my loss because I didn’t have a family to go home to. Now I don’t want to be Mr. Show Business anymore. ”

- Alec Baldwin

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

- 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… ”

- Alec Baldwin

“ They're willing to suck in all this crap that comes over the television. ”

- Alec Baldwin

“ I don't want to go all over the map here, but where is the protest against this war when almost on a daily basis, someone is dying over there? ”

- Alec Baldwin

“ I was a guy who grew up with no money and no special qualities. When you become successful in this business and you've got a lot of money, it's a very potent blend. You meet beautiful women, you've got a lot of time on your hands, people pay attention to you a lot more than you deserve - I acted out on that as much as most young guys do who come to that place. ”

- Alec Baldwin

“ I don't want to go all over the map here, but where is the protest against this war when almost on a daily basis, someone is dying over there? ”

- Alec Baldwin

“ I was very competitive with my brothers when I was younger. Now we are all in completely different worlds. I'm 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… ”

- Alec Baldwin

“ I don't want to go all over the map here, but where is the protest against this war when almost on a daily basis, someone is dying over there? ”

- Alec Baldwin

“ I don't want to go all over the map here, but where is the protest against this war when almost on a daily basis, someone is dying over there? ”

- Alec Baldwin

“ I don't want to go all over the map here, but where is the protest against this war when almost on a daily basis, someone is dying over there? ”

- Alec Baldwin

“ I don't want to go all over the map here, but where is the protest against this war when almost on a daily basis, someone is dying over there? ”

- Alec Baldwin

“ Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And that's the terrible conflict. You have to be free to jump off into that volcano and you have to be pathologically self-conscious. ”

- 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 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

“ Denzel Washington's career is an enormous luxury. Compare him to Wesley Snipes. ”

- 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

“ 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… ”

- Alec Baldwin

“ Sometimes, you know, the president is a father-like figure in American society, to most Americans, even today, no matter how cynical we've become. And people don't want to think that daddy's a bum all the time. They don't want to think that Daddy's a liar, a cheat and a fraud. ”

- 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

“ Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And that's the terrible conflict. You have to be free to jump off into that volcano and you have to be pathologically self-conscious. ”

- Alec Baldwin

“ I don't want to go all over the map here, but where is the protest against this war when almost on a daily basis, someone is dying over there? ”

- Alec Baldwin

“ I don't want to go all over the map here, but where is the protest against this war when almost on a daily basis, someone is dying over there? ”

- 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… ”

- 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

“ I was a guy who grew up with no money and no special qualities. When you become successful in this business and you've got a lot of money, it's a very potent blend. You meet beautiful women, you've got a lot of time on your hands, people pay attention to you a lot more than you deserve - I acted out on that as much as most young guys do who come to that place. ”

- Alec Baldwin

“ I don't want to go all over the map here, but where is the protest against this war when almost on a daily basis, someone is dying over there? ”

- Alec Baldwin

“ When Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon spokespeople say to you, 'Well, this is going to be a long war, we're going to be in Afghanistan for the long haul,' what that euphemism means is that the moratorium on criticizing the government must be extended longer and longer and longer - ideally, beyond the 2002 election. ”

- Alec Baldwin

“ If you are passionate and truthful, you find success. There are a more people who have lasted forever as actors earlier because films used to be character driven and now they are mostly plot driven. Much of the most delicate work being done today is on television… ”

- Alec Baldwin

“ When Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon spokespeople say to you, 'Well, this is going to be a long war, we're going to be in Afghanistan for the long haul,' what that euphemism means is that the moratorium on criticizing the government must be extended longer and longer and longer - ideally, beyond the 2002 election. ”

- Alec Baldwin
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