Alec Baldwin Quotes

I had the ability, but I didn't have the name. They could have built me, which is what they did with Deborah Kerr, but I don't think I was quite hot enough in the looks department, quite frankly. I was all talent and no looks.

My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.

I think looks do matter on television.

There are thousands of good-looking women out there. Longevity for a heroine doesn't come only with good looks: talent matters.

Being eye candy always was a short-term career, and here's the reason. The world finds young women more attractive than old women because youthfulness signals fertility.

I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.

Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.

'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.

I think good-looking people seldom make good television. And American television studios almost concede before they start: 'Well, it won't be good, but at least it'll be good-looking. We'll have nice-looking girls in tight shirts with F.B.I. badges and fit-looking guys with lots of hair gel vaulting over things.'

I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.

I'm not a classically beautiful person, but hopefully it increases my longevity as an actress that my career isn't dependent on my great, great good looks.

It is very important for an actor to look physically attractive.

My ability to bring different characters to life is what has helped me advance in my career, and I would say as far as looks are concerned, well, I suppose that would be the icing on the cake, but acting comes first and foremost.

I'm lucky: I've got great photogenic eyes. You're up and running if you've got that and one brain cell to attach it to.

I have endorsed every hair product in my career. Looks have been my bread, butter, jam. Looks are important in our society.

Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.

Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.

It's nice to be one of the most beautiful people.

I've never understood the notion that actors and actresses should look great on-screen just because they're on-screen. That doesn't make sense to me.

Anyone that says looks don't count is lying.

I watch women continuously. I want them to look beautiful, I am not interested in making them funny, but just beautiful. They have got to look marvelous to please their own men.

Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome.

There was an art to the male posterior. That's all there was to it.

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.

If I was a woman in Russia, I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly. There are a few handsome ones, like Naomi Campbell's boyfriend, but there you see the most beautiful women and the most horrible men.