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 t...”

“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.”

“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 c...”

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

“I think Jerry Lee is sad. As a musician, he was far more talented than Elvis Presley. Everybody down in Memphis knows that. Elvis became a movie star because he was beautiful. Not that Elvis...”

“Men are literally lying in bed with their wives when the marriage is essentially over, thinking, 'I've got to get the hell out of here', and have a fantasy woman in mind. Then you get divorc...”

“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.”

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

“I don't try to communicate with my 'audience'. I don't bother with that any more. I used to try to have conversations with people, but it's futile.”

“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 wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie.”

“My wife is the greatest person I have ever known. She is just a living doll; she is great person and a great mom. We have a girl and a boy, and we are going to have another boy.”

“Grown-ups yell. I don't know why, but they do.”

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

“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.”

“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...”

“I know some people who live this much more insulated life in Los Angeles, where their feet never touch public ground. They walk out of their bathroom, their living room, they get into their...”

“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.”

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

“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...”