Alec Baldwin: ‘Acting is Like Plumbing’
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ALEC Baldwin says acting is like plumbing.
The 30 Rock star — who recently revealed he plans to quit showbiz, insisting his career has been a “complete failure” — says actors work mainly to pay bills.
“People don’t realize actors are like plumbers,” Baldwin told Wired magazine. “When you invite a plumber to your house and say, ‘I want you to put this sink in my bathroom’, the plumber doesn’t say, ‘I’m not going to install that sink, it’s hideous. You have the worst taste in sinks!’ No, he just says, ‘OK’, and he puts it in.
“I made films from about ’86 until ’99. And then things started to really wind down. When your fortunes ebb in the movie business, it’s like The Sixth Sense. You’re dead and you don’t know it.”
Baldwin’s most embarrassing film? “My Best Friend’s Girl had one of the worst scripts I’ve ever read in my life,” he said.
“The movie was a huge disaster. Scathing reviews. And I realized, ‘I’m done with doing it for the money’.”
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