Top 95 Alec Baldwin Quotes

I have dear friends of mine who represent real Republicans. Goldwater Republicans. Strong on defense. Tough on immigration. Fiscal conservatives.

On a television show, precise acting isn’t the order of the day.

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

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 think I’m just like a lot of people who had nothing. We had to amuse ourselves, so we had to become amusing.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Everything I do is about my kids and wife and how we can all be together.

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

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.

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

I just can’t live in New York anymore.

I think about how much I used to work and how much I used to make that the priority.

Look at the shows that are really successful on Broadway. They’re musicals. They’re things that a woman will pick out the tickets for, or a man will buy the tickets with a woman in mind. It’s a date. It’s boyfriend-girlfriend, husband-wife. That’s what the theater in New York has become.

‘The Apprentice’ was a huge success, and Trump was a huge television star who managed to trick people into thinking he was the guy from the show.

If I won the lottery tomorrow, I probably would never work again.

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

So Colleen Atwood introduced me to Armani for the fabric and the dyes – what made Armani, Armani, beyond his motion-picture credentials. It was Cerruti after that. And then Zegna.

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

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

When you lack a certain vitality in the film business, there’s no hiding it. It’s like you’ve had your limb chopped off. How do you hide the fact that you’re missing an arm?

The Trump name is now going to mean something else.

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

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

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

You have a lot of optimism when you are young.

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.

I haven’t changed, but public life has. It used to be you’d go into a restaurant, and the owner would say, ‘Do you mind if I take a picture of you and put it on my wall?’ Sweet and simple. Now, everyone has a camera in their pocket.

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

I loathe and despise the media in a way I did not think possible.

You read some columnists in the newspapers; you have to wonder who they are really working for. You can see they have an agenda.

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

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

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

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

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.

I’m a pretty loyal person.

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.

It’s good-bye to public life in the way that you try to communicate with an audience playfully, like we’re friends, beyond the work you are actually paid for.

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?

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

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.

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.

Getting older is hard.

Down with Dukes of Hazzard!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

My wife is the greatest person I have ever known. She is just a living doll; she is great person and a great mom. We have a girl and a boy, and we are going to have another boy.

New York… where people come for their Ph.D. in corruption.

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

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.

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

I hope people will learn more about agriculture in America. About locally grown farming and about water conservation. About how much pollution results from beef and pig farming.

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

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

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.

Everybody had posters in their room; everybody had the four symbols of Zeppelin on the wall and all that.

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.

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

We need more participation, so when I see someone like Trump, I go, ‘You know something? Good for him’. I may not support him, but let him run.