Adam Baldwin quote: "The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it."

I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.
ADAM BALDWIN

I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
ADAM BALDWIN

The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clin...
ADAM BALDWIN

I'm not much of a jokester.
ADAM BALDWIN

You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.
ADAM BALDWIN

My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
ADAM BALDWIN

I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
ADAM BALDWIN

I think work begets work.
ADAM BALDWIN

What I try to do is to appreciate every job I have while I'm working on it.
ADAM BALDWIN

I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
ADAM BALDWIN

A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are e...
ADAM BALDWIN

I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch ...
ADAM BALDWIN

I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me.
ADAM BALDWIN

It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A...
ADAM BALDWIN

I just consider myself a piece of the puzzle and I'm lucky enough to be asked or invited to the ...
ADAM BALDWIN

Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.
ADAM BALDWIN

The top-notch shows have pretty good crews and I'm a big fan of hard-working camera crews. They make...
ADAM BALDWIN

I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what peo...
ADAM BALDWIN

It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A...
ADAM BALDWIN

I mean, I'm a guy with three kids. I'm home usually Friday nights, but I know most people who aren't...
ADAM BALDWIN

I just consider myself a piece of the puzzle and I'm lucky enough to be asked or invited to the part...
ADAM BALDWIN

I don't want to explode,
ADAM BALDWIN

Hopefully, young people will read more books, and it will cause them to think a little longer, than ...
ADAM BALDWIN

There's a definite Boy-named-Sue bitterness emanating from Jayne. You don't cross him, you don't tru...
ADAM BALDWIN

It could potentially be something big but come what may, we have closure on a very sad chapter of ou...
ADAM BALDWIN

A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are e...
ADAM BALDWIN

Demons manifest themselves in people in different ways. For instance, out of nowhere, somebody can b...
STEPHEN BALDWIN

Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesn't have much for children. At its heart are conver...
ROSECRANS BALDWIN

I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Than...
ROSECRANS BALDWIN

I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospi...
TAMMY BALDWIN

I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at pers...
TAMMY BALDWIN

When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.
TAMMY BALDWIN

I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologie...
TAMMY BALDWIN

Politicians in Washington and Madison aren't hearing, aren't listening to their constituents...
TAMMY BALDWIN

In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented o...
TAMMY BALDWIN

I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.
TAMMY BALDWIN

Americans are not saving enough for retirement.
TAMMY BALDWIN

The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
TAMMY BALDWIN

From day one, I have always been open about my sexual orientation.
TAMMY BALDWIN

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.
TAMMY BALDWIN

Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is...
TAMMY BALDWIN

I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who ...
TAMMY BALDWIN

All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... becaus...
TAMMY BALDWIN

Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I&...
IRELAND BALDWIN

I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, ...
IRELAND BALDWIN

There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundre...
IRELAND BALDWIN

I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so m...
IRELAND BALDWIN

When I was young, I'd fight everyone who insisted I'd be an actress. I'd say, 'No wa...
IRELAND BALDWIN

I imagine how hard it might be to walk down the runway. Me in heels is, like, deforesting the forest...
IRELAND BALDWIN

I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.
IRELAND BALDWIN

I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. ...
STEPHEN BALDWIN

To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have ...
KATE BALDWIN

Michael John's music is soul-stirring. It gets inside the deepest part of you; it's almost a...
KATE BALDWIN

I have to start with elements of myself, which is what you always do as an actor.
KATE BALDWIN

Even with revivals, I don't really pay attention to previous incarnations. I always just go with...
KATE BALDWIN

I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.
KATE BALDWIN

'Encores!' is, to me, a wonderful, warm, welcoming place, and I hope it always will be.
KATE BALDWIN

Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a perfor...
KATE BALDWIN

If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.
KATE BALDWIN

One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever agai...
FAITH BALDWIN

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
FAITH BALDWIN

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.
FAITH BALDWIN

You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, howeve...
FAITH BALDWIN

I thought, 'My God, I'm gonna make $15,000 a week for 13 weeks.' What would I do with th...
DANIEL BALDWIN

Where I am right now I'm pretty good at. You know, I understand that there's a problem. I...
DANIEL BALDWIN

What this does for me emotionally, psychologically and spiritually - to look in the mirror and not b...
DANIEL BALDWIN

The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.
DANIEL BALDWIN

There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are...
DANIEL BALDWIN

I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.
DANIEL BALDWIN

My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that&#...
DANIEL BALDWIN

It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm...
DANIEL BALDWIN

If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can'...
DANIEL BALDWIN

I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off.
DANIEL BALDWIN

I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure ...
DANIEL BALDWIN

I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.
DANIEL BALDWIN

At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we...
DANIEL BALDWIN

For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they ...
DANIEL BALDWIN

Homicide is the best material I've had the chance to do.
DANIEL BALDWIN

I believe as a born-again Christian that once you've had a chance to drink from the well, it bec...
DANIEL BALDWIN

The campaign finance scandal in America is the global warming of American political life - with cash...
ALEC BALDWIN

I love making shorts out of jeans, or customizing denim. Basically, I like to rip and distress thing...
HAILEY BALDWIN

I don't do facials - I don't really enjoy people picking at my skin. I'd rather a dermat...
HAILEY BALDWIN

I don't like to run. You will not see me running on a treadmill ever. Ever! I like boxing, thoug...
HAILEY BALDWIN

Sometimes I Google myself just to see what people are saying. But we all do that. If someone tells y...
HAILEY BALDWIN

You can blame my mom for some of my worst fashion moments. She used to dress me and my sister in a l...
HAILEY BALDWIN

All my tattoos except my first were not planned. I would just go into the shop late at night with fr...
HAILEY BALDWIN

I think trying to maintain a classic pretty style is the way I like to go, like Margot Robbie's ...
HAILEY BALDWIN

My style kind of differs - sometimes I want to be a little dressed down, a little tomboy, sometimes ...
HAILEY BALDWIN

The older supermodels sometimes don't agree with the fact there is a new generation of models. W...
HAILEY BALDWIN

For me, I like to be a little bit tomboy but still look like a lady. Pretty tough. Or really, really...
HAILEY BALDWIN

If I get in a dark spot, I'll listen to some Adele and cry about it.
HAILEY BALDWIN

I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the...
HAILEY BALDWIN

I wasn't bullied by the mean girls in high school. I'm just bullied by adults and teenagers ...
HAILEY BALDWIN

I don't see myself as famous; I see myself as a normal person with a job that is not very normal...
HAILEY BALDWIN

Acting is in my family. My cousins, my sister, and I always say it's a legacy that should be kep...
HAILEY BALDWIN

My biggest goal in life will be achieved when I have a family, when I have my own kids that I can ra...
HAILEY BALDWIN

I think that God kind of put me in the place in my life to not be quiet about it, not be quiet about...
HAILEY BALDWIN

The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no perso...
HAILEY BALDWIN

I would never pose topless.
HAILEY BALDWIN

We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.
BALDWIN SPENCER

2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly t...
BALDWIN SPENCER

Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the...
BALDWIN SPENCER

It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of c...
BALDWIN SPENCER

There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.
BALDWIN SPENCER

A woman who pretends to laugh at love is like a child who sings at night when he is afraid
STANLEY BALDWIN

To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting t...
CHRISTINA BALDWIN

I'm your full blown charismatic evangelical freak daddy.
STEPHEN BALDWIN

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.
JAMES BALDWIN

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and t...
JAMES BALDWIN

The future is like heaven. Everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
JAMES BALDWIN

The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kil...
STANLEY BALDWIN

I'm a Jewish born-again Christian.
STEPHEN BALDWIN

My first novel, 'You Lost Me There,' has been described as a beach read. Tough bracket, beac...
ROSECRANS BALDWIN

The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
JAMES BALDWIN

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. -James...
JAMES BALDWIN

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the i...
JAMES BALDWIN

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imita...
JAMES BALDWIN

Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered ...
JAMES BALDWIN

People can cry much easier than they can change.
JAMES BALDWIN

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you ...
JAMES BALDWIN

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more...
JAMES BALDWIN

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love ...
JAMES BALDWIN

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and th...
JAMES BALDWIN

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love ...
JAMES BALDWIN

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
JAMES BALDWIN

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy...
JAMES BALDWIN

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
FAITH BALDWIN

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty o...
JAMES BALDWIN

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself...
JAMES BALDWIN

The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea...
JAMES BALDWIN

The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the poin...
JAMES BALDWIN

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described...
JAMES BALDWIN

Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that ...
JAMES BALDWIN

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast...
JAMES BALDWIN

When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I ...
JAMES BALDWIN

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once h...
JAMES BALDWIN

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the m...
JAMES BALDWIN

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
JAMES BALDWIN

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without mo...
JAMES BALDWIN

Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES BALDWIN

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people ...
JAMES BALDWIN

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on ...
JAMES BALDWIN

We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we ...
JAMES BALDWIN

We are all androgynous, not only because we are all born of a woman impregnated by the seed of a man...
JAMES BALDWIN

Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts,...
FAITH BALDWIN

Power without responsibility -- the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.
STANLEY BALDWIN

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in...
JAMES BALDWIN

The paradox of education is precisely this -- that as one begins to become conscious one begins to e...
JAMES BALDWIN

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the inde...
JAMES BALDWIN

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
JAMES BALDWIN

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on...
JAMES BALDWIN

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other his...
JAMES BALDWIN

An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wre...
JAMES BALDWIN

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience...
JAMES BALDWIN

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
STANLEY BALDWIN

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity f...
MONICA BALDWIN

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world...
JAMES BALDWIN

The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the pa...
JAMES BALDWIN

Be careful what you set your heart upon -- for it will surely be yours.
JAMES BALDWIN

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called ...
ROGER BALDWIN

For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting...
JAMES BALDWIN

The future is... black.
JAMES BALDWIN

Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom...
JAMES BALDWIN

Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. Peop...
JAMES BALDWIN

James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no on...
JAMES BALDWIN

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze...
JAMES BALDWIN

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own e...
JAMES BALDWIN

Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.
JAMES BALDWIN

Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.
JAMES BALDWIN

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is...
JAMES BALDWIN

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
JAMES BALDWIN

No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, ...
JAMES BALDWIN

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, fo...
JAMES BALDWIN

Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty -- necessarily, since a religion...
JAMES BALDWIN

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one ou...
JAMES BALDWIN

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imita...
JAMES BALDWIN

It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themsel...
JAMES BALDWIN

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a s...
JAMES BALDWIN

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
JAMES BALDWIN

People can cry much easier than they can change.
JAMES BALDWIN

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly si...
JAMES BALDWIN

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, ...
JAMES BALDWIN

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forc...
JAMES BALDWIN

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibilit...
JAMES BALDWIN

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied ...
JAMES BALDWIN

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
JAMES BALDWIN

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and stre...
JAMES BALDWIN

Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocu...
JAMES BALDWIN

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
ALEC BALDWIN

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.
JAMES BALDWIN

He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a ...
JAMES BALDWIN

The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.
JAMES BALDWIN

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immut...
JAMES BALDWIN

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity f...
MONICA BALDWIN

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.
JAMES BALDWIN

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
STANLEY BALDWIN

For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their abili...
JAMES BALDWIN

I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on th...
JAMES BALDWIN

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of th...
MONICA BALDWIN

I've heard it said of faith that first we jump, and then we grow wings. Integrity is like that too, ...
MATT BALDWIN

The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.

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The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.

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