Alec Baldwin quotes:

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.

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

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.

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

Down with Dukes of Hazzard!

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.

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.

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

New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign,

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.

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

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.

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.

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

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

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.

To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.

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.

[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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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'm not working, I dress like a surfer. I look like I'm going to come into your house and clean your pool.

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

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.

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.

I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in.

Never go with a hippie to a second location.

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

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.

One of the truest things to commit to is your own nature.

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

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.

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.

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

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 ...

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will.

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.

All those animals live a pretty dreary life, then they get chopped up and put on a griddle.

Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.

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

I'm a pretty loyal person.

Getting older is hard.

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

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.

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.

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

I probably have to move out of New York. I just canâ??t live in New York anymore.

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

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

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

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 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.

Rolling torture wagons for nature's most dignified creature.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

One generation might like you, then 15 years later the next is responding to somebody else.