Quotes by Alec Baldwin

“Bush wasnt elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.”

“Im very patriotic. Im an arch-patriot. When they play The Star Spangled Banner, I get all choked up. I love my country.”

“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.”

“To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough. Denzel Washingtons career is an enormous luxury. Compare him to Wesley Snipes. Do you think that they set out for it to be that way? All actors set out for the same thing: to make both entertaining films and important films.”

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

“Sometimes, you know, the president is a father-like figure in American society, to most Americans, even today, no matter how cynical weve become. And people dont want to think that daddys a bum all the time. They dont want to think that Daddys a liar, a cheat and a fraud.”

“You have actors who begin at a certain young age and theres very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; theyre the same 30 years later.”

“Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.”

“I dont 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?”

“Theres less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. Weve never needed people to think more critically than now, and theyve taken a big nap.”

Once youve found some joy, you never want to be without 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

It is imperative that we replace those who think they own this country, with those who built it.

[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 its over.

The wealthy dont have any sense of humor. Its not like the English, where the theater is perhaps the one place where they have a sense of humor about themselves.

My brothers were funny, and there was a lot of shtick and comedy and nastiness and violence and fighting and sports.

Im doing Rock of Ages one day, making out with Russell Brand. Soon after that, Im advocating with Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Cynthia Nixon for marriage equality.

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

Theres three things: theres masculinity, theres intelligence, theres sensitivity. Youve got to bring those three things to a leading mans role: masculinity, sensitivity, intelligence. In some people, theres a little too much in the mix of one or the other.

The campaign finance scandal in America is the global warming of American political life - with cash substituting for deadly solar radiation.