Alec Baldwin: I'm Quitting Acting in 2012
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Hollywood: get ready to say "so long, farewell" to Alec Baldwin.
The Emmy-winning star of 30 Rock says that he plans to quit acting when his contract for the NBC show expires in 2012.
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Says Baldwin in the December issue of Men's Journal: "I don't have any interest in acting anymore." At 51, he points out, "I'm not young, but I have time to do something else."
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And while the actor has gotten the best reviews of his career playing Republican, bottom-line-obsessed Jack Donaghy on the hit comedy, he harshly dismisses all of his work on the big screen:
"I consider my entire movie career a complete failure," declares the star of The Hunt for Red October and Glengarry Glen Ross.
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Huh? "The goal of moviemaking," he explains, "is to star in a film where your performance drives the film, and the film is either a soaring critical or commercial success, and I never had that."
And, yes, Baldwin still regrets the infamous, leaked voicemail in which he called daughter Ireland a "rude, thoughtless little pig." "I feel the consequences of that every day," he tells the magazine.
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Baldwin's protracted custody fight with ex-wife Kim Basinger has affected his love life, too, leading to the recent dissolution of a seven-year relationship with another woman. Yet he claims that he doesn't mind. "I'd rather be lonely than wrong," he says.
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20Miami Blues - he drove and it was excellent
Miami Blues -- one he drove that was excellent.
I think he did a brilliant role playing Jack Ryan in "The Hunt for Red October". Here is my "I told you so" moment in Alec's movie career. You would of had a nice run playing Jack Ryan Alec... You missed out and so did the viewing public. I love your comedic talent in 30 Rock and think you have more to offer.
Oh please! I think he just wants his ego massaged by having people beg him not to. Didn't he learn his lesson when no one begged him not to move from the USA when Bush was re-elected in 2004. Go away already and take Adam Lambert with you.
Who cares -- he is such an egotistical dude. He's not a bad actor but would I miss him...NO
Alec, please reconsider ... CAN'T YOU MAKE IT ANY SOONER?
AB failed to leave the country as promised when George Bush was re-elected, so I doubt he'll quit acting in 2012, unless he's going to focus on eating...
man, you all are harsh. go look in a mirror and then make some judgments. i'm going to miss him in 30 rock....his character is hilarious and clutch for the show!
Oh well - who cares, hasta la vista Alec. Now you can eat yourself into oblivion!
quiting acting ? like he was ever someone.. no loss ...
All I have to say to this is... Who Give A Sh*t! Wasn't he and his then wife Kim supposed to move to Canada when Bush won the presidency back in 2000 anyway???
To quit acting would require that he had done that in the past. I have never seen him do anything that would qualify as acting.
Does this mean 30 rock will end in 2012 or will it continue without Alec?
I wasn't aware of any acting he's done in the past 20 years. This bum is a legend in his own mind. Nobody cares what he does.
Why wait, Alec? Why not quit today? Let them get somebody else for the Academy Awards and I might watch. And you think you're an acting failure? I'm surprised you didn't mention failures as a husband and father. And to GPosner: I think that line is: Don't let the door hit'cha....where the good Lord split'cha...
Splendid...don't let the door hit you in the ass...
"I'd rather be lonely than wrong". What does that mean?
hopefully it means he is leaving the country...about time!!!!!!
He's quitting acting in 2012? Gives me time to gather up all the Kleenex I can...for the tears I'll cry...sniff, sniff...NOT.
Isn't this the same guy who said he was moving to Canada if Bush were re-elected? *holding my breath*