Alec Baldwin Quotes

It's hard to regret making the choice that you think is right.

My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.

I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.

My kids paid the price for my career. We can say it's for our family, but it almost never is. It's about us. It's just some of us can pretend better than others.

I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mum and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently. 'Balance' is a really big word for me.

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.

I don't want at the end of my life to look back at just a bunch of fictional movies I was involved in that kept taking me away from the real world.

If I had my life to live over, I would want to be a man.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

If I had my whole life to live over again, I don't think I'd have the strength.

I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the contract you signed when you decided your wishes were not true or possible; and the exacting of the punishment you agreed to when you knew you would break the contract of your life.

His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.

You're the one who has to live with your choice, everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will

You have to choose your future regrets.

I know the mistake I am making. I see the exits in life.

Adulthood has something to do with not choosing any of the pure points of view, but living about half of what you really want to live.

It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.

I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.

Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent life constitutes.

To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.

You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.

Regrets, I've had a few but then again too few to mention. And more, much more than this, I did it my way.