Alec Baldwin Quotes

I love actors, and I love the casting process. It's funny, like, some writers don't like actors because, I think, they are the faces of the show, and so you feel sort of secondary, but I love actors because they elevate the material; they make it better.

I still feel I belong to the theatre. There is nothing more challenging and exciting for an actor than performing before a live audience. The stage is the real testing ground for an actor.

I just love acting. Being in theater or being in television or film, I'm really living out my destiny.

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

When people give you a writing assignment, they're asking what you think. That's the very opposite of being an actor. When you're an actor, no one wants to hear what you think.

Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree.

Acting is all about timing. I mean, who has better timing than the MCs?

When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.

As an actor, you're always at the service of somebody else's vision. In a play, it's more of the director's vision, and he or she's got their hands on you all the way up to opening night, and if it's a film, there are even more people.

My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby.

I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.

It's important to listen to the actor who is there on the stage and living it.

Acting is a privilege, and I'm exceedingly blessed to be able to do what I do. At the end of the day, it's all entertainment.

I'm an actor in that I just want to create roles and characters and play parts that people remember and like or dislike or hate.

Being an actor is not like any other job. It's not easy.

The beauty of acting is you just get lost in it. You play the character, and you hope that it works.

My show is more storytelling now than it's ever been. It's what I'm good at.

Having worked as an actor on television for 20 years, I tend to make people act the way I want.

I am a complete director's actor.

The beauty of making theater is that you have to go and do it the next day. Making a show nightly is a really difficult skill. It's something every theater actor and every theater maker is challenged with.

I am always excited to be an actor. If I wasn't, I would be acting, and the audience wouldn't watch me.

As an artist, you're thankful to get a shot at a story more than once, because it doesn't happen all the time. Whether you talk about 'Hamlet' or 'Death of a Salesman,' you always want to see what the next group of actors will do.

Having grown up in musical theatre, I know what works and what doesn't.

Good actors can tell you more about your play than 1,000 hours alone at your desk.

I never wanted to become an actor to be famous. I just wanted to be a good actor. It served me pretty well.