Quotes from Alec Baldwin

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

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.

When I'm not working, I dress like a surfer. I look like I'm going to come into your house and clean your pool.

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

New York... where people come for their Ph.D. in corruption.

I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting.

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 wasn't talented, but Jerry Lee Lewis was incomprehensibly talented as a musician.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I'm a pretty loyal person.

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

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

As my friend said to me, when you have children, typically in a second marriage, when you're older and you get married again to a woman who would have children, you must always remember that you make sure the children attend a college where the commencement ceremonies are held in a facility with a wheelchair accessible ramp.

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

On a television show, precise acting isn't the order of the day.

Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted.

When I get onstage in a play, I feel very safe, very protected, very fulfilled.

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 garage, their car, and the next thing you know, they're at the valet parking of the restaurant or the store or the office. They're in a bubble the whole time.

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.

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.

I have my older daughter Ireland and my wife Hilaria, and I have Carmen and Rafael.