Top 60 Alec Baldwin Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You ask me if I have a God complex? Let me tell you something – I am God.”

— Alec Baldwin

2. “Only one thing counts in this life – get them to sign on the line that is dotted.”

— Alec Baldwin

3. “How can we turn our back on an endeavor which increases our children’s cultural intelligence, heightens individual sensitivity and deepens our collective sense of humanity? I suggest to you that we cannot.”

— Alec Baldwin

4. “Never go with a hippie to a second location.”

— Alec Baldwin

5. “I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.”

— Alec Baldwin

6. “Books make great gifts because you don’t have to plug them in.”

— Alec Baldwin

7. “If you do get married, get a prenup. It’s not about money at all. It’s about having a document that states how you’ll dissolve your marriage while you still have a shred of respect for each other.”

— Alec Baldwin

8. “If we were in another country, we would stone Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes and kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families, for what they’re doing to this country.”

— Alec Baldwin

9. “Denzel Washington’s career is an enormous luxury. Compare him to Wesley Snipes.”

— Alec Baldwin

10. “Success begets success. I’ve been offered a lot of movies now that ‘30 Rock’ has been successful.”

— Alec Baldwin

11. “Do I regret getting married? It’s hard for me to say anything because ultimately we’re talking about the mother of my child.”

— Alec Baldwin

12. “I would like to devote myself to the cause of parental alienation.”

— Alec Baldwin

13. “I probably have to move out of New York. I just can’t live in New York anymore.”

— Alec Baldwin

14. “Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice: Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the environment and do it for your health.”

— Alec Baldwin

15. “You’ve got to see someone at their worst and ask yourself if you can handle it.”

— Alec Baldwin

16. “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

17. “I don’t think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn’t care. If you told me that I would have to sell real estate in New York City to look after my family, that would be fine with me.”

— Alec Baldwin

18. “I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married.”

— Alec Baldwin

19. “Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And thats the terrible conflict. You have to be free to jump off into that volcano and you have to be pathologically self-conscious.”

— Alec Baldwin

20. “I collect travel alarm clocks. I was in a flea market in France once, in 1994, and I opened up this beautiful Jaeger-LeCoultre folding eight-day winding clock folded into a beautiful case, and I went, ‘Wow, man.’ And I’ve been collecting travel alarm clocks since 1994.”

— Alec Baldwin

21. “I suppose if the offending paparazzi was wearing a hoodie and I shot him, it would all blow over.”

— Alec Baldwin

22. “When I am sitting home, and I am happy and I have my TV show and I don’t need to work and I’m married now and I like to be in line by my pool with my yoga instructor wife and eating fruit and taking in the sun, then life is good.”

— Alec Baldwin

23. “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.”

— Alec Baldwin

24. “Most women in leading roles are very boyish looking. The one girl working right now who I think is a real beauty in a classic sense – the only real 12-cylinder engine – is Catherine Zeta-Jones.”

— Alec Baldwin

25. “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.”

— Alec Baldwin

26. “Getting older is hard.”

— Alec Baldwin

27. “Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!”

— Alec Baldwin

28. “I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don’t speak the language!”

— Alec Baldwin

29. “I never walked out the door and said, “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest Baldwin brother of them all?””

— Alec Baldwin

30. “Behind each number is a person, a victim, whose individual story is ghastly.”

— Alec Baldwin

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31. “If I add a negative element to the piece, you are not a villain necessarily but you bring a stronger, more negative aspect to the film, and if you don’t do that, the film goes off balance where you can’t worry about likability, you have to come in and play the part the best way that you can.”

— Alec Baldwin

32. “A lot of people want to not wear a tie when they go to a restaurant. They feel they don’t have to wear a tie. I think it’s kind of a statement they’re making. I don’t know what that statement is. I haven’t quite figured that out yet.”

— Alec Baldwin

33. “My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn’t commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didn’t go all the way with just being completely selfish. I always wonder where my career would be if I was more selfish.”

— Alec Baldwin

34. “I think the older I’ve gotten the more, like most people, my appreciation shifts towards things that are very difficult, where you see people who have put in tremendous hours and hours of commitment.”

— Alec Baldwin

35. “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

36. “In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It’s just different.”

— Alec Baldwin

37. “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.”

— Alec Baldwin

38. “That which does not destroy you buys you another day to destroy others. By the way, remember last year when I was winning in Ohio or Indiana or Iowa, one of those, and I said I could shoot somebody in the middle of Fifth Avenue and I wouldn’t lose voters?”

— Alec Baldwin

39. “Down with Dukes of Hazzard!”

— Alec Baldwin

40. “I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don’t know if I will.”

— Alec Baldwin

41. “You can tell Gov. Bush to rest assured that I’m not going to leave the country because we have to get him out of office and we have to get his brother out of office in 2004. We’re not resting until we get that done.”

— Alec Baldwin

42. “We both grew into the people we wanted each other to be.”

— Alec Baldwin

43. “One generation might like you, then 15 years later the next is responding to somebody else.”

— Alec Baldwin

44. “Ultraconservatism is, to me, so illogical. Everywhere you go, conservatives want to cut, cut, cut, cut – cut money for powerless people. So, that’s the biggest problem I have with them.”

— Alec Baldwin

45. “I am so much of a mind now to be in the audience, to watch and to experience, and to feel, rather than having to get up and perform, I want my life to be less about performing.”

— Alec Baldwin

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

— Alec Baldwin

47. “All those animals live a pretty dreary life, then they get chopped up and put on a griddle.”

— Alec Baldwin

48. “It is imperative that we replace those who think they own this country, with those who built it.”

— Alec Baldwin

49. “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.”

— Alec Baldwin

50. “To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.”

— Alec Baldwin