Quotes by Alec Baldwin

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

— Alec Baldwin

Wisdom

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

— Alec Baldwin

Love

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

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

Getting older is hard.

— Alec Baldwin

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

— Alec Baldwin

Wisdom

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

— Alec Baldwin

Wisdom

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

— Alec Baldwin

Wisdom

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

— Alec Baldwin

Wisdom

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.

— Alec Baldwin

Wisdom

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

Love

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

Wisdom

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.

— Alec Baldwin

Wisdom

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

— Alec Baldwin

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

— Alec Baldwin

Wisdom

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

— Alec Baldwin

Success

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

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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.

— Alec Baldwin

Success

Often in films, you have no idea where you're going to be six months from now. And I grew very weary of that. And television, although it wasn't necessarily as creatively diverse as filmmaking can be, it was the lifestyle choice that I needed to make.

— Alec Baldwin

Life

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.

— Alec Baldwin

Wisdom