William Baldwin Quotes & Sayings

Clearly, there are a thousand and one scenarios for how someone can slip through the cracks. I'll walk down the street and see a homeless person, and I'll want to stop them and say, How did this happen? Where's your mother? Are you physically ill? Mentally ill? — William Baldwin

I could count my modeling jobs on my hands and toes. When I graduated from college, I moved to New York specifically to study acting, and I needed to pay the bills, and it's better to make a couple thousand dollars in one day than to wait tables six days a week. — William Baldwin

(Antique clocks) need servicing just like your automobile or anything else. They're mechanical, and about every 10 years you should have them cleaned. That's the way they last forever. — William Baldwin

I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op. — William Baldwin

Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood. — William Baldwin

I look for an interesting and often times, fresh character. Something different that what is done all the time or than I've done recently. I look at who is directing. Those two variables as well as a third, which is the content and the quality of the screenplay. I look at the arcs of the scenes and characters and relationships. — William Baldwin

I always equate wrestling to having been in the Marine Corps. — William Baldwin

Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one. — William Baldwin

SUNY gives you a world-class education. — William Baldwin

Lo, thou, my Love, art fair;
Myself have made thee so;
Yea, thou art fair indeed,
Wherefore thou shalt not need
In beauty to despair;
For I accept thee so,
For fair.

[excerpt from "Christ to His Spouse"] — William Baldwin

In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving. — William Baldwin

A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof. And then affordable housing becomes completely inaccessible. — William Baldwin

A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money. — William Baldwin

When I wrestled in College, my team was very good. — William Baldwin

I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor. — William Baldwin