Quotes by Alec Baldwin

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 Ive been collecting travel alarm clocks since 1994.

There are some times when you make films and you travel places, and the take that people in the business have is that the worst way to see a city is to shoot there, because you work these long 12, 13 and 14-hour days, and you go home to the hotel, you eat, and you pass out.

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

My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didnt commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didnt go all the way with just being completely selfish. I always wonder where my career would be if I was more selfish.

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.

As my friend said to me, when you have children, typically in a second marriage, when youre older and you get married again to a woman who would have children, you must always remember that you make sure the children attend a college where the commencement ceremonies are held in a facility with a wheelchair accessible ramp.

Men are literally lying in bed with their wives when the marriage is essentially over, thinking, Ive 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, youve aged a few years and are ready to go back to your ex-wife.

I think Jerry Lee is sad. As a musician, he was far more talented than Elvis Presley. Everybody down in Memphis knows that. Elvis became a movie star because he was beautiful. Not that Elvis wasnt talented, but Jerry Lee Lewis was incomprehensibly talented as a musician.

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.

I know some people who live this much more insulated life in Los Angeles, where their feet never touch public ground. They walk out of their bathroom, their living room, they get into their garage, their car, and the next thing you know, theyre at the valet parking of the restaurant or the store or the office. Theyre in a bubble the whole time.

Everything I hated about L.A. Im 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.

Hollywood studios bury that stuff - actors who punch directors in the face and try to run producers over with cars - insanity, criminal behavior. But the studios are invested in that star, they cant have that persons name dirtied up.