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| Alec Baldwin b: Massapequa, New York, Apr 3, 1958 American. Actor. Starred in TV series "Knots Landing," 1984-85; films Working Girl, 1988; The Hunt for Red October, 1990.
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. I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.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? 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 think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I'm not necessarily going to leave the United States. Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor. 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.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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