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Alec Baldwin, born on April 3, 1958, is an American actor known for his performances in film and television, particularly in roles such as those in 'The Parent Trap' and 'The West Wing'. His achievements in the entertainment industry have earned him a respected status among artists.

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“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.”

Work Acting Challenge

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“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.”

Patience Wishing

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“[Tennessee] William's writing has the effect that all great writing has on an actor. It steadies you. It emboldens you You ride an elevator to the top floor of a building, you jump off the penthouse balcony, and you fly. Just put one foot in front of the other, one line after the other, one moment after the other, and you are walking on air. It was the creative experience of a lifetime. (playing Stanley in Streetcar Named Desire)”

Peak Experiences Tennessee Williams Streetcar

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“[About his pivot from George Washington University to New York University.] Then based solely on Shari's (a friend of a girlfriend) playful provocation, I auditioned for the theater program at NYU. ... This was an idiotic idea, all things considered. When I eventually pitched it to my parents on the phone, my mother shrieked what a mistake I was making. My dad just listened. ... {H]e said to my mother, 'Let's here him out.' I knew something other than money was behind that. Here was a man who had short-circuited his own dreams in order to provide for his family. 'You'll never be young enough to do this again,' he said.”

Acting Risk Taking Father Son Relationship Pivot

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“[Alec asked his agent John Burnham at William Morris if he was being shunned by Hollywood execs] 'It's not that when they think of you they hate you. They don't think of you at all.”

Shunned Finding Work

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

Careers Enormous Luxury Compare Denzel

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“I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!”

Speak Language Wind Idiot Good Conversation

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“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.”

Thinking Acting Talent

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“I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want

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“I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation.”

Wanted Five Generations Actresses Greatest Movie

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“My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn't commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didn't go all the way with just being completely selfish. I always wonder where my career would be if I was more selfish.”

Ifs Way Has Beens Would Be Given Half Wonder Careers Selfish Commit Just Being Given Up Marriage And Family Half Measures

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“Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with.”

Successful Percent

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“Ultraconservatism is, to me, so illogical. Everywhere you go, conservatives want to cut, cut, cut, cut - cut money for powerless people. So, that's the biggest problem I have with them.”

People Want Problem Cutting Powerless Illogical

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“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 I've been collecting travel alarm clocks since 1994.”

Men Beautiful Cases Eight France Clock Wow Collecting Alarms Fleas Folding Alarm Clocks Flea Markets

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“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.”

Way Chance Married Take A Chance

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“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.”

Thinking Men Want Mean Fronts Football Throwing Yards

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“When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out.”

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“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.”

Ifs Believe I Believe Differences Millions Balance Mere Scales Budgets Making A Difference Toms Salary Cruise Annuals

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“I remember during my lifetime I would meet women, and it was almost like God would say to me, 'Now, this woman here is not the one you are going to end up with, but she is going to be a lot like this woman; look at this woman, study this woman.' And when my wife showed up, He was like, 'You recognize her now?'”

Looks Ends Remember Study Wife Like You Lifetime My Wife

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“In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different.”

Different Acting Minutes Theater Acting In Movies

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“When you're with someone, you want everything to be great. And that's the pressure that you put on, and what you just can't do.”

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“In the film business, when you're young, you just want to work. But when you're older, it has more to do with who's involved with the project - who you're going to get in the boat with.”

Want Film Young Involved Projects Boat

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

Government Wonderful Labor Slave Admire Boat Zero Factories Capitalist Regulation Government Regulation Slave Labor

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“You can be someone running...who is just a soaring leader of people. But if you don't have the finances down, you're going to have a problem.”

People Ifs Problem Running Education Leader Finance Soar

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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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“I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing.”

People Thinking

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“To me, the Republican Party is the real great tragedy of the last 25 years because there are lot of good and decent people and a lot of good political points [that have] come from the Republican Party in the post-war period, but it has been hijacked by these fundamentalist wackos.”

People Years Has Beens War Real Lasts Political Party Periods Republican Tragedy Posts Decent Republican Party Fundamentalist Great Tragedy Post War Good Political

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“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.”

Country Done Brother Office Assured

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

Song Forever Fans Rocks Genius Married Musician Raised Incredibles Creator Bars Performers Composer Solo Favorite Song

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

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“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.”

Ifs Way Play Film Worry Pieces Balance Elements Negative Aspect Stronger Add Best Way Villain

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“I think the older I've gotten the more, like most people, my appreciation shifts towards things that are very difficult, where you see people who have put in tremendous hours and hours of commitment.”

People Thinking Difficult Hours Commitment Appreciation

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“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.”

Want Feels Mind Watches Audience Get Up Performing

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“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.”

Needs Shows Home Life Is Lines Sun Wife Tvs Eating Married Yoga Sitting Fruit Pool Tv Shows Instructors Life Is Good

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“One generation might like you, then 15 years later the next is responding to somebody else.”

Years Might Next Generations Like You Responding

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

Said Doors Brother Wall Mirrors Mirror Mirror On The Wall

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“You've got to see someone at their worst and ask yourself if you can handle it.”

Ifs Asks Worst Handle

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“If you do get married, get a prenup. It's not about money at all. It's about having a document that states how you'll dissolve your marriage while you still have a shred of respect for each other.”

Ifs Stills States Married Documents

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

Children Hard Mother Talking Regret Married My Children Say Anything I Regret Getting Married

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“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.”

Thinking Real Girl Roles Right Now Classic Engines Real Beauty Boyish Cylinders Zeta

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

Remember Sex Dinner Chinese Cookies Funny Sex Getting Over You

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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.”

People Thinking Country Bigs Forget Levels Taken Streets Media Needed Critical Critical Thinking Naps Main Street

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“I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.”

Doe Casts Spells Rome

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“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.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Real Would Be Care Acting Cities New York Fine Tomorrow My Family Sells New York City Estates

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

Lines Party Five Judging Selected

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“Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.”

Home Enemy Citizens Terrorist Innocent Innocence

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“Down with Dukes of Hazzard!”

Dukes Dukes Of Hazzard

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“Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.”

Turns Policy Public Policy Manure

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“For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally.”

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“Getting older is hard.”

Hard Getting Older

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About the Author

Born: April 3, 1958
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 94

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