Alec Baldwin Quotes

My two best pieces would have to be Ghosts of Mississippi and my new film Bookworm. Bookworm was special for me to do because I really idolize the writings of Mamet. Also, I got to work with Tony Hopkins, and I really love Tony.

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Denzel Washington's career is an enormous luxury. Compare him to Wesley Snipes.

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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.

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

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I was very competitive with my brothers when I was younger. Now we are all in completely different worlds. I'm not in direct competition with my brothers for anything, ever. Stephen and I and Billy and I are better at staying in touch with each other. Danny is married, he has a new baby and he is very peripatetic, he goes to golfing tournaments and charity things. He really travels a lot.

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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.

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makes the case for Americans to adopt a vegetarian diet and enact humane legislation to weed out the worst abuses.

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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.

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

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Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.

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Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And that's the terrible conflict. You have to be free to jump off into that volcano and you have to be pathologically self-conscious.

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

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Obviously, Chris has the physical component in spades. We were confident in him, but we also weren't quite sure what this guy with limited stage experience could do. And I'm amazed how well he's done. I have a ball with Chris every night.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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For her to pin all that on me is unfair. You'd think she was on the payroll of my ex-wife's divorce lawyer, pushing every button you could find.

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I feel I'm two people I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue.

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Sometimes, you know, the president is a father-like figure in American society, to most Americans, even today, no matter how cynical we've become. And people don't want to think that daddy's a bum all the time. They don't want to think that Daddy's a liar, a cheat and a fraud.

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

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Actors are treated like suppositories that are inserted into cavities of the movie-going public.

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I don't 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

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