Alec Baldwin Quotes

• "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."
• "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 are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time."
• "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."
• "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."
• "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."
• "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."
• "I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems."
• "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."
• "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."
• "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?"
• "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."
• "Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy."
• "Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines."
• "Actors are treated like suppositories that are inserted into cavities of the movie-going public."
• "I don't get acting jobs because of my looks."
• "I'll leave this country if Al Gore isn't elected President."
• "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."
• "To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough."
• "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."
• "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."
• "Denzel Washington's career is an enormous luxury. Compare him to Wesley Snipes."