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For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally.
One generation might like you, then 15 years later the next is responding to somebody else.
I need to be home more. That's the goal now. I have a steady flow of things people want me to do.
I suppose if the offending paparazzi was wearing a hoodie and I shot him, it would all blow over.
Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.
There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.
To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.
I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation.
Am I a homophobe? Look, I work in show business. I am awash in gay people, as colleagues and as friends.
Everybody had posters in their room; everybody had the four symbols of Zeppelin on the wall and all that.
We all have that moment when we think, 'Hand me that Oscar now - you don't even have to have the ceremony'.
Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.
I went to Jimmy Gandolfini's funeral, and when I was there, I realized Jimmy Gandolfini didn't have Twitter.
There are shows that are monolithic successes on TV that nobody in the business ever watches one episode of.
Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.
I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing. We had to amuse ourselves, so we had to become amusing.
When I'm not working, I dress like a surfer. I look like I'm going to come into your house and clean your pool.
There's almost no popular music I listen to now. I'll hear it because it's everywhere... Music is ubiquitous now.
I don't need to be married to Georgia O'Keeffe or Lillian Hellman, but I like being with a woman I can look up to.
I never walked out the door and said, "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest Baldwin brother of them all?"
Have I thought about having more kids? Oh sure, that would be great; that would be heaven. That would be fantastic.
I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.
Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with.
There's a way I could have done things differently. I know that. If I offended anyone along the way, I do apologize.
I have been driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years now. You have to go through this to understand.
I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue.
I'm going to stop giving too much money to charity - the charity is going to become my family. I'm only half-kidding.
I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked.
I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting. I'm not bad at it, but I don't think I really have a talent for it.
I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married.
Nobody cares about your autograph. There are cameras everywhere, and there are media outlets for them to 'file their story'.
Do I regret getting married? It's hard for me to say anything because ultimately we're talking about the mother of my child.
Manhattan is like Beverly Hills. And the soul of New York has moved to Brooklyn, where everything new and exciting seems to be.
When you're with someone, you want everything to be great. And that's the pressure that you put on, and what you just can't do.
You read some columnists in the newspapers; you have to wonder who they are really working for. You can see they have an agenda.
I have always wanted to do a show where I could stay home. When you make movies, you might as well take a dart and throw it at a map.
I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!
Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.
My whole life is classical now. Except my wife. I don't have a classical wife. I have a classy wife, but I don't have a classical wife.
The harshest thing I can say is I was married to someone for whom all dissent was abuse. If you had your own opinion, you were abusive.
New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.
I do admire [Willie] Wonka. He's a true capitalist. His factory has zero government regulations, slave labor and an indoor boat. Wonderful.
The campaign finance scandal in America is the global warming of American political life - with cash substituting for deadly solar radiation.
You can be someone running...who is just a soaring leader of people. But if you don't have the finances down, you're going to have a problem.
I want to go make a movie and be very present for that and give it everything I have, and after we're done, then the rest of the time is mine.
We need more participation, so when I see someone like Trump, I go, 'You know something? Good for him'. I may not support him, but let him run.
'The Apprentice' was a huge success, and Trump was a huge television star who managed to trick people into thinking he was the guy from the show.
I have dear friends of mine who represent real Republicans. Goldwater Republicans. Strong on defense. Tough on immigration. Fiscal conservatives.
I'm not interested in offending anyone. If homosexuality was an issue for me, I would have moved out of New York years ago. I find that laughable.
I don't try to communicate with my 'audience'. I don't bother with that any more. I used to try to have conversations with people, but it's futile.