Best 66 quotes of Alec Baldwin on MyQuotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

there was nothing to be ashamed of in doing jobs simply to make a living, so long as those jobs fueled other creative efforts