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Alec Baldwin

Alec Baldwin

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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.
morristowngreen.com2016-12-16Source
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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 News2017-04-03Source

Works Timeline

2017
  • You can't spell America without meBook

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