"I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that I would have to sell real estate in New York City to look after my family, that would be fine with me."
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Alec Baldwin quotes (page 4 of 5)
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"I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie."
"I'd do anything to have more kids. But that's probably not gonna happen now."
"I believe we can balance the scales if Tom Cruise would lower his quote by a mere $29 million... I assure you my salary would not make a difference. My annual salary is the budget for Altoids on one of Tom's movies."
"I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation."
"I probably have to move out of New York. I just can’t live in New York anymore."
"We both grew into the people we wanted each other to be."
"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."
"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."
"I was in college in Washington, D.C. I did three years full-time. I did all my requirements and my senior year was really a gut year. And I said, law school will always be there. I was in no hurry to get right into that."
"I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting. I'm not bad at it, but I don't think I really have a talent for it."
"I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!"
"Getting older is hard."
"All those animals live a pretty dreary life, then they get chopped up and put on a griddle."
"I am so much of a mind now to be in the audience, to watch and to experience, and to feel, rather than having to get up and perform, I want my life to be less about performing."
"I never walked out the door and said, "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest Baldwin brother of them all?""
"Do I regret getting married? It's hard for me to say anything because ultimately we're talking about the mother of my child."
"If I add a negative element to the piece, you are not a villain necessarily but you bring a stronger, more negative aspect to the film, and if you don't do that, the film goes off balance where you can't worry about likability, you have to come in and play the part the best way that you can."
"I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting."
"When I get onstage in a play, I feel very safe, very protected, very fulfilled."