American - Actor | April 3, 1958 -
I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing. We had to amuse ourselves, so we had to become amusing.
Alec Baldwin
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My brothers were funny, and there was a lot of shtick and comedy and nastiness and violence and fighting and sports.
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Hollywood does draw some very strange characters, and then the power of Hollywood and what they can do with it becomes like a blood sport to them.
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When you lack a certain vitality in the film business, there's no hiding it. It's like you've had your limb chopped off. How do you hide the fact that you're missing an arm?
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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.
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There are shows that are monolithic successes on TV that nobody in the business ever watches one episode of.
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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.
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Being able to stay home with my children is what I prefer.
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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.
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I turned popular music on the radio, and I never listened to it again after that, in about 1985. That's when I switched over to classical music, and I pretty much stayed with that since then.
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There's almost no popular music I listen to now. I'll hear it because it's everywhere... Music is ubiquitous now.
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There are some times when you make films and you travel places, and the take that people in the business have is that the worst way to see a city is to shoot there, because you work these long 12, 13 and 14-hour days, and you go home to the hotel, you eat, and you pass out.
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