Alec Baldwin Quotes

A dirty word in the film business right now is intelligence.

After 'Bhaji On The Beach', I didn't make a movie for six years. I couldn't get a movie off the ground for love nor money. It was a very tough time and I almost gave up. If I had been an Oxbridge bloke after 'Bhaji', my career would have been very different

I did Brad's first film The Take and I'm glad Brad [Furman] has not calmed down. I don't want him to ever calm down.

Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling.

People say you never retire in this [film] business and I say, well, not until they retire you.

Some people say talent is energy and that's a very interesting way of thinking about it. In other words, people with talent have a lot of energy.

When I'm introduced as a two-time Oscar winner, I'm happy that a film of mine has found an audience and some acclaim because that keeps me in business. A filmmaker's greatest concern is the ability to make future films, so it helps keep me in business.

There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.

I've been around Hollywood and filmmaking long enough to know that it's a tricky dangerous business when you go on camera, you got to watch yourself.

I think you have to take the whole idea of wage equality out of the film industry.

Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer's make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road he wants to go. I would only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto.

When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way.

I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.

Even the most humble role, I've always felt really wildly grateful to be getting anywhere in film business.

I had a checkered early career, for sure, with a lot of very unhappy experiences where pictures got taken away, re-cut, re-titled... all the nightmares one hears about.

Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it.

Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places from respectable existence.

I've always had a really great time being in movies and writing music when I get home. The more creative I am, the more it feeds into other creative aspects of my life.

Los Angles is not my favorite city. Well, I shouldn't say that... I love to visit it, on a temporary basis. It's just such a company town! You can't go anywhere and not run into someone who wants to be in the business.

I’ve basically been working really hard for the past couple years. And the nature of the film business is that movies come out when they come out, and these all just happen to be coming out at the same time.

I can do movies maybe that have already been written, but I can't do anything for months at a time.

Film is a collaborative business: bend over.

I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.

Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.