Quotes by Alec Baldwin

The way we produce food is killing the land and water.

Getting older is hard.

America is competitive. We compete with each other every day.

Zegna has the perfect weight fabric. There are a lot of designers who make clothes that are a little too heavy. They feel heavy. They almost feel like a coat.

You read some columnists in the newspapers; you have to wonder who they are really working for. You can see they have an agenda.

My brothers and I grew up in a time where talking, storytelling, telling jokes was sometimes all you had. It wasn't like today, with so many options and portability.

Divorce itself is child abuse. 192.

So Colleen Atwood introduced me to Armani for the fabric and the dyes -- what made Armani, Armani, beyond his motion-picture credentials. It was Cerruti after that. And then Zegna.

I would like to devote myself to the cause of parental alienation.

I have been driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years now. You have to go through this to understand.

I suppose if the offending paparazzi was wearing a hoodie and I shot him, it would all blow over.

Some days you're the kid with the stick, some days you're the pinata.

I wear a Zegna suit and tie every day, pretty much.

One of the truest things to commit to is your own nature.

Quoting Julie Harris: I don't wish for anything to be over. To wish something to be over is to wish your life to be over. 94.

You can tell Gov. Bush to rest assured that I'm not going to leave the country because we have to get him out of office and we have to get his brother out of office in 2004. We're not resting until we get that done.

Behind each number is a person, a victim, whose individual story is ghastly.

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.

New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.

Paul McCartney is a genius ... Paul married Rock and Roll to beauty, and forever raised the bar for composers, musicians, and fans ... an incredible solo performer ... the creator of our favorite songs.

You ask me if I have a God complex? Let me tell you something -- I am God.

Do I regret getting married? It's hard for me to say anything because ultimately we're talking about the mother of my child.

I never walked out the door and said, Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest Baldwin brother of them all?

Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in.

I do admire Willie Wonka. He's a true capitalist. His factory has zero government regulations, slave labor and an indoor boat. Wonderful.

Rolling torture wagons for nature's most dignified creature.

I am still playing 'Words With Friends,' but on Virgin Atlantic.

If we were in another country, we would stone Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes and kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families, for what they're doing to this country.

I have no desire to run for public office.

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.

Everybody has their own taste, and I allow for that, but personally, I don't like a striped tie on a striped shirt. I don't like brown shoes with a blue suit. Cordovan maybe, but not brown.

When I am sitting home, and I am happy and I have my TV show and I don't need to work and I'm married now and I like to be in line by my pool with my yoga instructor wife and eating fruit and taking in the sun, then life is good.

I hope people will learn more about agriculture in America. About locally grown farming and about water conservation. About how much pollution results from beef and pig farming.

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

In the beginning, I had thought I might try acting for a while and see if it fit. As the work I was offered became more interesting it became my life. The challenge of doing it well at an ever-higher level appealed to me more than anything else. 104.

Never go with a hippie to a second location.

Most women in leading roles are very boyish looking. The one girl working right now who I think is a real beauty in a classic sense -- the only real 12-cylinder engine -- is Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the environment and do it for your health.

The way we divorce in this country hurts people on the deepest level. The ripple effect and resonance of it is remarkable, vast -- vast -- and if I ever went into Parliament, I would become very involved in that.

If you're going to have someone defend you, it doesn't get any better than Kristen Stewart.

We need more participation, so when I see someone like Trump, I go, 'You know something? Good for him'. I may not support him, but let him run.

Manhattan is like Beverly Hills. And the soul of New York has moved to Brooklyn, where everything new and exciting seems to be.

If MSNBC went off the air tomorrow, what difference would it make? If the 'Huffington Post' went out of business tomorrow, what difference would it make?

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

I'm not interested in offending anyone. If homosexuality was an issue for me, I would have moved out of New York years ago. I find that laughable.

Twitter and Tumblr and Vine and Instagram and Facebook and Myspace, all these things are social media tools that we were all told we had to have, and what we're realizing is that, no you don't! No you don't.

I know women that act queeny, I know men that are straight that act queeny, and I know gay men that act queeny... To me, those are people who think the rules don't apply to them.

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

I have dear friends of mine who represent real Republicans. Goldwater Republicans. Strong on defense. Tough on immigration. Fiscal conservatives.

If Hank Williams Jr. wasn't such a pathetic, wheezing fossil, I'd have a talk with him.

As a lifelong Democrat, I never thought I'd lead an effort to defend the symbol of the Republican Party. But when I saw the cruelty that Ringling inflicts on elephants every day across the country, I had to speak up.

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 can't have that person's name dirtied up.

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

Acting in the theatre is fun; acting in film is work.

There are women who get divorced in order to punish. Out of this bitter, bitter hatred that some of these women have for their ex-husbands, they turn their children against them.

The harshest thing I can say is I was married to someone for whom all dissent was abuse. If you had your own opinion, you were abusive.

The wealthy don't have any sense of humor. It's not like the English, where the theater is perhaps the one place where they have a sense of humor about themselves.

John McTiernan, the director, is not Ingmar Bergman. He does action-adventure movies.

I don't hate Trump, but he's not somebody I admire.

If I won the lottery tomorrow, I probably would never work again.

I think about how much I used to work and how much I used to make that the priority.

All actors have a significant amount of vanity about work, and necessarily so. Things they will do and won't do, and I've completely lost all of that. I don't care.

I want my weekends back so I can be with my kids.

The Trump name is now going to mean something else.

'The Apprentice' was a huge success, and Trump was a huge television star who managed to trick people into thinking he was the guy from the show.

I'm not an impressionist, per se, but if you do any kind of comedy -- and they ask you to do that, most of the time -- there's some degree of appreciation, I think, involving somebody you like.

Everybody had posters in their room; everybody had the four symbols of Zeppelin on the wall and all that.

My whole life is classical now. Except my wife. I don't have a classical wife. I have a classy wife, but I don't have a classical wife.

I went to Jimmy Gandolfini's funeral, and when I was there, I realized Jimmy Gandolfini didn't have Twitter.

I just can't live in New York anymore.

My goal was always to take a talk show to the network. I never wanted to be on MSNBC.

I find myself bitter, defensive, and more misanthropic than I care to admit.

I think Rachel Maddow is quite good at what she does. I also think she's a phony who doesn't have the same passion for the truth off-camera that she seems to have on the air.

There's a way I could have done things differently. I know that. If I offended anyone along the way, I do apologize.

It's good-bye to public life in the way that you try to communicate with an audience playfully, like we're friends, beyond the work you are actually paid for.

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

Am I a homophobe? Look, I work in show business. I am awash in gay people, as colleagues and as friends.

Everything I hated about L.A. I'm 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.

I need to be home more. That's the goal now. I have a steady flow of things people want me to do.

I worked all the time. Every moment I wasn't working, I was home with my family. I got divorced. And now I'm doing it all over again, and I've learned that the key is, I've got to work less.

I started out as an actor, where you seek to understand yourself using the words of great writers and collaborating with other creative people. Then I slid into show business, where you seek only an audience's approval whether you deserve it or not.

I want to go make a movie and be very present for that and give it everything I have, and after we're done, then the rest of the time is mine.

I won every award you could win in television. I got paid well. And people loved '30 Rock'. And I loved '30 Rock'. I mean, sometimes you do a show that's a hit show, and you hate it.

I haven't changed, but public life has. It used to be you'd go into a restaurant, and the owner would say, 'Do you mind if I take a picture of you and put it on my wall?' Sweet and simple. Now, everyone has a camera in their pocket.

I loathe and despise the media in a way I did not think possible.

My children are the only thing in my life that makes me happy.

Everything I do is about my kids and wife and how we can all be together.

I'm going to stop giving too much money to charity -- the charity is going to become my family. I'm only half-kidding.

There's almost no popular music I listen to now. I'll hear it because it's everywhere... Music is ubiquitous now.

I turned popular music on the radio, and I never listened to it again after that, in about 1985. That's when I switched over to classical music, and I pretty much stayed with that since then.

Being able to stay home with my children is what I prefer.

I have always wanted to do a show where I could stay home. When you make movies, you might as well take a dart and throw it at a map.

People don't understand this: if you want to have a really good shot at succeeding, there are doors you have to slam in people's faces and say, 'This is my priority, and you can't depend on me to help you.' I was never good at that.