Quotes from Alec Baldwin

Getting older is hard.

I did not have a happy family life a few years ago. I was divorced, and I was very alienated from my daughter, and I was out there cutting every ribbon and running around New York hosting events for different causes to supplant my loss because I didn't have a family to go home to. Now I don't want to be Mr. Show Business anymore.

My father would chaperone at high-school dances, and the toughest guy in the high school used to want to fight my father. My father broke his hand on a guy's head once in school.

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.

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.

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

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.

You have a lot of optimism when you are young.

We all have that moment when we think, 'Hand me that Oscar now - you don't even have to have the ceremony'.

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.

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 think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing. We had to amuse ourselves, so we had to become amusing.

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

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.

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

My brothers were funny, and there was a lot of shtick and comedy and nastiness and violence and fighting and sports.