Alec Baldwin says lost interest in acting, will soon quit

Actor Alec Baldwin age 51 years old was interviewed for Men’s Journal to feature in the December issue. Alec feels that his film career was a complete failure, although he was in many films such as Bettlejuice, It’s Complicated, 30 Rock and The Hunt for Red October and The Cooler. Mr. Baldwin was chosen to co-host the 2010 Oscar ceremonies. He also told Playboy Magazine this year that he was, “done,” with his career in 2012 and would retire at “30 Rock’s” wrap party. Alec also stated, “I consider my entire movie career a complete failure," he told Men's Journal. "The goal of movie-making 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." Mr. Baldwin also expressed interest in politics in the past but did not say in the interview what he intended to do should he quit acting.

The Baldwin’s have really done well in the acting business, as I read this article at http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.reuters.com/alec-baldwin-says-lost-interest-acting-will-soon-quit-reuters . I realized that his expectation of what he thought his career should have been and actually was seemed to be two complete and totally different levels. This article was a bit disappointing as to my expectation of what Alec Baldwin has to offer the camera and what he will offer the camera which isn’t very much more than what he has already delivered.

Alec Baldwin was born April 3, 1958 and raised in Massapequa, NY along with his brothers Daniel, Stephen and William and sister’s Jane and Elizabeth. This article states from Alec, “I don’t have any interest in acting anymore; movies are a part of my past. It’s been 30 years. I’m not young, but I have time to do something else.” It amazes me how this man seems to think that his career was a failure when his name is known in homes everywhere. I can’t imagine having expectations of such proportion as this man does of his acting career to feel such disappointment with such effort. I was so excited to read any information regarding the Baldwin’s, but when I read this well disappointment sit in. This announcement has been made several times in the past, so if this comes to fruition then it will be interesting how it will actually end or if the end has a, “To be continued.”

Alec Baldwin also appeared on the daytime soap, “The Doctors,” on NBC between the years of 1980-1982, as said on http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800019239/bio. Along with the crazy preacher on, “Knots Landing,” on CBS in between 1979-1993 and “Married to the Mob,” in 1988 or “Working Girl,” in 1988 or the retro musical, “Talk Radio.” It was also announced that Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will be co-hosting the 82nd Academy Awards in 2010. What a pair, I am excited about seeing them working together announcing the Academy Awards. There were many other special guest appearances that Alec preformed in such as Saturday Night Live, or The View, and Nip Tuck. Alec was born in Amityville, New York and has performed as an actor, director, producer, voice actor, driver, gas station attendant, shirt salesman and finally a waiter. I share this with you to enlighten you that he is human as well as anyone else in this world. He started from nothing and became something, not born with a silver spoon but earned the spoon instead. This family has been touched by tragedy as well as normal folks that are not blessed by a movie career, the loss of his father from lung cancer in 1983 and a blessing that his mother being a breast cancer survivor. If this announcement is true and final, then I say farewell, Alec you will be missed.