Quotes from Alec Baldwin

Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.

Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.

It's good-bye to public life in the way that you try to communicate with an audience playfully, like we're friends, beyond the work you are actually paid for.

I have no desire to run for public office.

There are women who get divorced in order to punish. Out of this bitter, bitter hatred that some of these women have for their ex-husbands, they turn their children against them.

If Hank Williams Jr. wasn't such a pathetic, wheezing fossil, I'd have a talk with him.

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

My children are the only thing in my life that makes me happy.

Acting in the theatre is fun; acting in film is work.

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

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.

Am I a homophobe? Look, I work in show business. I am awash in gay people, as colleagues and as friends.

I don't need to be married to Georgia O'Keeffe or Lillian Hellman, but I like being with a woman I can look up to.

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.

Men are literally lying in bed with their wives when the marriage is essentially over, thinking, 'I've got to get the hell out of here', and have a fantasy woman in mind. Then you get divorced, meet a woman, marry her, and by the time all that goes by, you've aged a few years and are ready to go back to your ex-wife.

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.

If I won the lottery tomorrow, I probably would never work again.

I won every award you could win in television. I got paid well. And people loved '30 Rock'. And I loved '30 Rock'. I mean, sometimes you do a show that's a hit show, and you hate it.

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.

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.

Look at the shows that are really successful on Broadway. They're musicals. They're things that a woman will pick out the tickets for, or a man will buy the tickets with a woman in mind. It's a date. It's boyfriend-girlfriend, husband-wife. That's what the theater in New York has become.

Everybody has their own taste, and I allow for that, but personally, I don't like a striped tie on a striped shirt. I don't like brown shoes with a blue suit. Cordovan maybe, but not brown.

There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.

The campaign finance scandal in America is the global warming of American political life - with cash substituting for deadly solar radiation.