"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." - Alec Baldwin
"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." - Alec Baldwin
"There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time." - Alec Baldwin
"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." - Alec Baldwin
"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." - Alec Baldwin
"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." - Alec Baldwin
"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." - Alec Baldwin
"I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems." - Alec Baldwin
"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." - Alec Baldwin
"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." - Alec Baldwin
"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?" - Alec Baldwin
"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." - Alec Baldwin
"Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy." - Alec Baldwin
"Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines." - Alec Baldwin
"Actors are treated like suppositories that are inserted into cavities of the movie-going public." - Alec Baldwin
