J.F. Baldwin Quotes

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible.

People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.

Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people.

I'm just the messenger here. I'm just another representative of my faith, so to speak.

I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married.

My wife asks me, when I get home from auditions, if they asked how tall I am. And if I say "Yes," then she says, "Okay, you didn't get that job."

Acting had always been the social scene I'd fallen into. It was sort of a merry band of band geeks and theater nerds.

You never really know the guy until you sit down with him.

If I'm gonna get my balls blown off for a word, my word is "poontang".

What hard evidence is there that Obama doesn't want ebola in America?

I'm not much of a jokester.

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

A lot of the questions that anyone would naturally have about their family, you'll get much of the answers for, or at least hints to where it will go, in the future.

I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.

You can't control the audience. When you're on the air and they're not coming to the party, it's time to shut down the party.

It's great to be able to pretend you're tough but funny at the same time.

I do admire [Willie] Wonka. He's a true capitalist. His factory has zero government regulations, slave labor and an indoor boat. Wonderful.

Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.

If you do get married, get a prenup. It's not about money at all. It's about having a document that states how you'll dissolve your marriage while you still have a shred of respect for each other.

Ultraconservatism is, to me, so illogical. Everywhere you go, conservatives want to cut, cut, cut, cut - cut money for powerless people. So, that's the biggest problem I have with them.

You can be someone running...who is just a soaring leader of people. But if you don't have the finances down, you're going to have a problem.

I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked.

Rolling torture wagons for nature's most dignified creature.

I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue.

I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing.

In the film business, when you're young, you just want to work. But when you're older, it has more to do with who's involved with the project - who you're going to get in the boat with.

When you're with someone, you want everything to be great. And that's the pressure that you put on, and what you just can't do.

I think the older I've gotten the more, like most people, my appreciation shifts towards things that are very difficult, where you see people who have put in tremendous hours and hours of commitment.

One generation might like you, then 15 years later the next is responding to somebody else.

Marriage changes things because there's a lot more at stake. You can't get too toxic because you have to live together. No one can reach for the nuclear button too quickly.

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

All those animals live a pretty dreary life, then they get chopped up and put on a griddle.

Getting older is hard.

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

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.

I don't want to be throwing the football on the front yard when I'm 75. I mean, I'm not opposed to men doing that. But I don't think it's gonna work for me.

We both grew into the people we wanted each other to be.

I probably have to move out of New York. I just can’t live in New York anymore.

I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation.

I'd do anything to have more kids. But that's probably not gonna happen now.

I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie.

I'm a pretty loyal person.

I would like to devote myself to the cause of parental alienation.

When I'm not working, I dress like a surfer. I look like I'm going to come into your house and clean your pool.

I am still playing 'Words With Friends,' but on Virgin Atlantic.

I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will.

When I get onstage in a play, I feel very safe, very protected, very fulfilled.