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What's Eating Alec Baldwin?

Posted Sep 6, 08 5:09 AM CDT in Glossies,  Gossip,  Arts & Living 

(Newser) – Alec Baldwin—star of a hit TV show, winner of Golden Globes and SAG Awards, co-star to Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio and Nicole Kidman—isn't all that jazzed about acting anymore. “There’s just something else I want to do,” the 50-year-old actor tells Ian Parker in the New Yorker. “I spend the waking hours of my life saying things that other people think and say and do—and behaving as someone else. I’m tired of it. I want to be me!"

What might that entail? Maybe he'll host a classical radio show or run a hotel. Or maybe this is all lingering midlife angst. Baldwin is still brooding over his divorce from Kim Basinger and the ensuing ugly custody battle over their daughter. And though he denigrates his own acting chops and can tick off a string of flops, he still longs for one star-eclipsing role. "Oh to be Leo," he says. As younger brother Billy puts it: "There's always something for him to be f---ing whining about." 

Source New Yorker

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Alec Baldwin and his ex-wife Kim Basinger have been involved in a nasty custody battle, prompting Baldwin to pen a book about the flaws he sees in the family law system.   (AP Photo/Rene Macura, FILE)
Alec Baldwin and his daughter Ireland are seen in this 2005 photo. After a nasty voicemail he left her became public, Baldwin says, %u201CI wanted to die, literally. I didn%u2019t want to live anymore."   (AP Photo/Jennifer Graylock)
Tina Fey, right, and Alec Baldwin hang out backstage after 30 Rock won the award for outstanding comedy series in 2007.   (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)
"Baldwin is perhaps too easily seduced by a narrative of grand failure, rather than accepting a quieter story of qualified success," Ian Parker writes in the New Yorker.   (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen, file)
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A scene from the second season of "30 Rock."   (YouTube)

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I don’t think I really have a talent for movie acting. I’m not bad at it, but I don’t think I really have a talent for it. - Alec Baldwin

I always wonder where my career would be if I was more selfish. Billy is someone who gave it all up for his family. And he has a lovely family. He’s happily married. He stayed married to one person. - Alec Baldwin

She’s so bright you’re always wondering if you’re boring her. - Alec Baldwin, about Tina Fey

The most relaxing places for me—and I want to swallow my own vomit when I say this, it sounds so phony—are onstage doing a play and on this boat. - Alec Baldwin

I wanted to die, literally. Every night, I’d say my prayers. 'Please don’t let me wake up in the morning. I don’t want to do this anymore.' - Alec Baldwin on the voicemail message for his daughter that was released to the public

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