Happy Birthday: Alec Baldwin

Alec Baldwin

Born: April 3, 1958 in Massapequa, Long Island, New York, USA

Married to: Hilaria Baldwin (30 June 2012 – present) (3 children)
Kim Basinger (19 August 1993 – 3 September 2002) (divorced) (1 child)

Before 30 Rock (2006) I had always given a percentage of my income to charity. I’m not blowing my horn about it. Most people give, I think. But when I learned that “30 Rock” was going into syndication, I entered into a very lucrative agreement with Capital One, and I gave nearly every dime to charity. That’s why I did the commercials. I got addicted to giving the money away.

[2012 interview] I’ve had a very average film career. The average career is that 25 per cent of the films you do are good, or very good. Twenty-five percent of the films you do are disgusting and horrible. And the 50 per cent in the middle is ‘eh’.

[2012, on The Hunt for Red October (1990)] I’m glad that people like the film, but it was studio moviemaking at its most self-conscious. They told me right to my face that Kevin Costner was the person they wanted to play my part, and they couldn’t afford him. Most of the people you worked with back then were numbingly frank in that way.

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