Alec Baldwin quotes His role in 'Beetle Juice' (1988) Born: 04/03/1958 Country: usa

• Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines. (Alec Baldwin)
• I'm very patriotic. I'm an arch-patriot. When they play 'The Star Spangled Banner,' I get all choked up. I love my country. (Alec Baldwin) [love]
• Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And that's the terrible conflict. You have to be free to jump off into that volcano and you have to be pathologically self-conscious. (Alec Baldwin) [conflict]
• To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough. Denzel Washington's career is an enormous luxury. Compare him to Wesley Snipes. Do you think that they set out for it to be that way? All actors set out for the same thing: to make both entertaining films and important films. (Alec Baldwin) [business/integrity/career/luxury]
• 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) [actors/age/change/depth]
• Sometimes, you know, the president is a father-like figure in American society, to most Americans, even today, no matter how cynical we've become. And people don't want to think that daddy's a bum all the time. They don't want to think that Daddy's a liar, a cheat and a fraud. (Alec Baldwin) [president/society/matter/people]
• Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy. (Alec Baldwin)
• I don't want to go all over the map here, but where is the protest against this war when almost on a daily basis, someone is dying over there?” (Alec Baldwin) [war/basis]
• I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems. (Alec Baldwin) [president]
• 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. (Alec Baldwin) [thinking/forget/people/think]
• Actors are treated like suppositories that are inserted into cavities of the movie-going public. (Alec Baldwin) [actors]
• I don't get acting jobs because of my looks. (Alec Baldwin)
• Denzel Washington's career is an enormous luxury. Compare him to Wesley Snipes. (Alec Baldwin) [career/luxury]
• To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.” (Alec Baldwin) [business/integrity]
• Weed out the worst abuses. (Alec Baldwin)
• makes the case for Americans to adopt a vegetarian diet and enact humane legislation to weed out the worst abuses. (Alec Baldwin) [legislation]
• harvesting our offshore winds to produce pollution-free energy is a forward-looking solution that protects public health, the environment and the region's quality of life. (Alec Baldwin) [health/quality/life]
• If anyone found a finger in his tofu, please let me know. It's mine. (Alec Baldwin)
• I've got my groove back! (Alec Baldwin)
• Opening my eyes to animal rights. … Look at the way [Hurricane] Katrina was handled — the way the government treats people and their animals is a tragedy. (Alec Baldwin) [eyes/look/government/people]
• Red Scorpion 3 (Alec Baldwin)
• Down with Dukes of Hazzard! (Alec Baldwin)
• Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie. (Alec Baldwin) [remember/sex]
• Doing these parts is not fun, ... It's challenging, but no fun. It's creepy. I would rather play the guy that throws the touchdown pass and gets carried off the field. (Alec Baldwin)
• They're willing to suck in all this crap that comes over the television. (Alec Baldwin) [television]
• Lives in a constant state of tension wherein she must never display or divulge her true feelings for her father because of the mother's all-consuming and bitter feelings toward me. (Alec Baldwin) [state/feelings/feelings]
• Ms. Basinger has so contaminated this child now that she doesn't even want to be with her father. (Alec Baldwin) [child]
• Obviously, Chris has the physical component in spades. We were confident in him, but we also weren't quite sure what this guy with limited stage experience could do. And I'm amazed how well he's done. I have a ball with Chris every night. (Alec Baldwin) [stage/experience/night]
• I was a guy who grew up with no money and no special qualities. When you become successful in this business and you've got a lot of money, it's a very potent blend. You meet beautiful women, you've got a lot of time on your hands, people pay attention to you a lot more than you deserve - I acted out on that as much as most young guys do who come to that place. (Alec Baldwin) [money/business/money/women]
• My two best pieces would have to be Ghosts of Mississippi and my new film Bookworm. Bookworm was special for me to do because I really idolize the writings of Mamet. Also, I got to work with Tony Hopkins, and I really love Tony. (Alec Baldwin) [film/love]
• If you are passionate and truthful, you find success. There are a more people who have lasted forever as actors earlier because films used to be character driven and now they are mostly plot driven. Much of the most delicate work being done today is on television. It often has the best acting because of their ability to be truthful. (Alec Baldwin) [find/more/people/actors]

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