
Alec Baldwin -- Born: 1958-04-03. Occupation: actor. Education: Berner High School. Awards: Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy.
Born1958-04-03
Occupationactor, character actor, comedian, director
EducationBerner High School, George Washington University, Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, New York University Tisch School of the Arts
AwardsGolden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series, Theatre World Award
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“He’s not that interesting. Someone was reviewing people’s Trump impersonations, past and present, and they said that Alec Baldwin was a mean and nasty Trump, and I’m like, great, that’s what I wanted. I wanted to play Trump as just a horrible person.”
Variety2026-06-12Source“I’ve lived in New York my whole adult life and Trump was the guy with a tuxedo in the glove compartment,”
Variety2026-06-12Source“I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger at them, never,”
ABC News2026-02-14Source“She was someone who was loved by everyone who worked with [her] and liked by everyone who worked with [her], and admired... I mean, even now I find it hard to believe that [she's gone]. It doesn't seem real to me.”
ABC News2026-02-14Source“Someone put a live bullet in a gun, a bullet that wasn't even supposed to be on the property,”
ABC News2026-02-14Source“I hit a big, fat tree. And crushed my car -- my wife's car. I crashed my wife's car. I feel bad about that. But it's all fine, and I'm fine and my brother's fine.”
ABC News2025-10-14Source“I think that John was a narcissistic and overreaching Type A guy,”
NPR2019-06-04Source“He had an enormously successful career at GM. He could have stayed that course and probably run the company. But John just had a contrarian streak in him — and his ego as well — he just found it very difficult to work for other people.”
NPR2019-06-04Source“It's a scab that never heals, 'cause it's being picked at all the time by other people. And ... I think my daughter, that's hurt her in a permanent way.”
ABC News2017-04-03Source“I'm glad I got it when I did, 'cause not many people get sober when they're young. I got sober when I was just about to turn 27. And those two years that I lived in that white hot period as a daily drug abuser, as a daily drinker ... to my misery — boy, that was a tough time.”
ABC News2017-04-03Source“They wanted to be happy and they were crushed by debt and money ... and that really drove me nuts.”
ABC News2017-04-03Source“Ford, in person, is a little man, short, scrawny and wiry,”
ABC News2017-04-03Source“I just was obsessed with work and making money 'cause of my dad,”
ABC News2017-04-03Source“I’m like the greatest actor who ever lived since I came in here. I’m like Anthony Hopkins, Richard Burton and John Gielgud rolled into one.”
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“Trump was somebody who I just thought we’re going to make him as two-dimensional as he deserves,”
Variety2026-06-12Source“For me the person who came to mind was Lee J. Cobb in ‘On the Waterfront,'”
Variety2026-06-12Source“Just this bully, this horrible, horrible, horrible thug.”
Variety2026-06-12Source“I think back and I think of what could I have done?”
ABC News2026-02-14Source“Pretty big tree, big fat tree.”
ABC News2025-10-14Source“There are many challenges to face,”
The Hollywood Reporter2024-11-25Source“He really was an immensely talented guy,”
NPR2019-06-04Source“He was one of those guys that wanted to have his own thing.”
NPR2019-06-04Source“But I'm luckier in my personal life. And I'm glad I'm luckier in my personal life. I'm lucky in my family life, and if I had to choose, I'd pick that.”
ABC News2017-04-03Source“I think I would've got it eventually,”
ABC News2017-04-03Source“I mean, as I mentioned in the book, there are people who admonish me or attack me or spit on me and use that ... as a constant ... spearhead to do that,”
ABC News2017-04-03Source“to play the role of the 45th president.”
ABC News2017-04-03Source“So the goal was to make Trump something very simple and very clear,”
ABC News2017-04-03SourceWorks Timeline
- You can't spell America without meBook
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