Alec Baldwin Quotes

But this is called show business, not show family.

We celebrities are desperate pigs.

You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.

The entertainment industry is as it always has been. It's a rough bunch of people and a rough industry.

I've always said it ain't 'Show Friends.' It's 'Show Business.'

In Hollywood, you grow up quick.

Howard Hughes was obsessed with me. But at first it seemed as if he were offering me a superb career opportunity.

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.

Everyone has a warped vision of Hollywood and what success in Hollywood is like.

Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

There are so many people who want to be the next person on 'Home and Away,' or they just want to be on the cover of a magazine, and they don't really understand the craft. They're not interested in theatre, they're not interested in the art.

Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'

The showbiz world has to be manipulated to make it more interesting because most people's lives are boring.

It's so easy to become obsessed with the film industry and recognition that we can forget that we are not saving the world. We are just actors trying to entertain people.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.

Showbiz can be cruel.

Hollywood's a very weird place. I think there's less of everything except for attitude.

My own mum cared about Hollywood, and I didn't. I wanted to act, and I loved the creativity of it, but I didn't care for the lifestyle.

I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!

I loved everything about show business, meeting the stars, the whole ambience. I was living every young kid's dream. I was told a pop singer's life was three years, but I was still making money seven years later.