Alec Baldwin
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"Alexander Rae "Alec" Baldwin III" is an United States/American actor, film producer and comedian who has appeared on film, stage and television. As a member of the Baldwin family/Baldwin family, he is the oldest of the four Baldwin brothers, all well-known actors.

Baldwin first gained recognition appearing on seasons 6 and 7 of the CBS television drama Knots Landing, in the role of Joshua Rush. He has since played both leading and supporting roles in films such as the horror comedy fantasy film Beetlejuice (1988), as Jack Ryan (character)/Jack Ryan in the action thriller The Hunt for Red October (film)/The Hunt for Red October (1990), the romantic comedy The Marrying Man (1991), the superhero film The Shadow (1994 film)/The Shadow (1994), and two films directed by Martin Scorsese: the Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator (2004 film)/The Aviator (2004) and the crime drama The Departed (2006). His performance in the 2003 romantic drama The Cooler garnered him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

From 2006 to 2013, he starred as Jack Donaghy on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, receiving critical acclaim for his performance and winning two Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards for his work on the show, making him the male performer with the most SAG Awards.

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I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.

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Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.

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To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough. Denzel Washington's career is an enormous luxury. Compare him to Wesley Snipes. Do you think that they set out for it to be that way? All actors set out for the same thing: to make both entertaining films and important films.

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I'm very patriotic. I'm an arch-patriot. When they play 'The Star Spangled Banner,' I get all choked up. I love my country.

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Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And that's the terrible conflict. You have to be free to jump off into that volcano and you have to be pathologically self-conscious.

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Sometimes, you know, the president is a father-like figure in American society, to most Americans, even today, no matter how cynical we've become. And people don't want to think that daddy's a bum all the time. They don't want to think that Daddy's a liar, a cheat and a fraud.

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There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap.

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You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.

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I don't want to go all over the map here, but where is the protest against this war when almost on a daily basis, someone is dying over there?

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