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by **GLX** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 6:09 pm

http://www.reuters.com/article/entertai ... 9S20091130

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. actor Alec Baldwin says he has lost interest in acting and considers his film career a failure.

"I don't have any interest in acting anymore," Baldwin, 51, told "Men's Journal" in an interview for its December issue.

Baldwin, best-known for his Emmy-award winning role in the NBC comedy "30 Rock" and the man chosen to co-host the 2010 Oscar ceremony, added: "Movies are a part of my past. It's been 30 years. I'm not young, but I have time to do something else".

Baldwin began a television acting career in the 1980s and has filmed scores of movies, including the 1988 cult classic "Beetlejuice". He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in the 2003 film "The Cooler" and stars in the upcoming movie "It's Complicated" with Meryl Streep and his Oscar co-host Steve Martin.

Men's Journal quoted Baldwin as saying it was "pretty much it for him" after "30 Rock", "in a couple of years or so". He told Playboy Magazine this year he was "done" with his career in 2012 and would retire at "30 Rock"'s wrap party.

"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."

Baldwin said the 1990 action film "The Hunt for Red October", in which he starred and which made more than $200 million worldwide, was successful because it was based on a popular Tom Clancy novel.

"And now, the movies I've been in, I never give them a moment's thought. Every movie I've ever been in, I just avoid," he said.

Baldwin has expressed interest in politics in the past but did not say in the interview what he intended to do should he quit acting.

Baldwin's interview with Men's Journal hits newsstands on Friday.

by **US Agent** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 6:11 pm

Oh look another celebrity "I'm leaving my work at some point in the future" story.

/Oprah'd

by **john lewis hawk** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 6:11 pm

guess Meryl Streep's a bitch or he is Streep's bitch.

by **UnknownEric** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 6:13 pm

Canteen Boy is sad.

by **Punchy** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 6:13 pm

He better not leave 30 Rock, that would be a national tragedy.

by **Victorian Squid** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 6:16 pm

Punchy wrote:He better not leave 30 Rock, that would be a national tragedy.

Sounds more like an international tragedy.

by **Punchy** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 6:17 pm

House of J wrote:Sounds more like an international tragedy.

I suppose, it would be worse than 9/11 and 7/7 combined.

by **UnknownEric** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 6:20 pm

Punchy wrote:I suppose, it would be worse than 9/11 and 7/7 combined.

That would make 7-11, which is also a tragedy of its own.

by **Potter Who** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 6:23 pm

he probably has a lot of crap in his life with the divorces and fights over his kids and stuff. I don't blame him for just being burnt out and wanting something new.

by **Rockman** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 6:25 pm

oh well, so long. And Alec you're right your career has been a failure.

by **Victorian Squid** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 6:26 pm

ironmanchild wrote:oh well, so long. And Alec you're right your career has been a failure.

He will always have Steven Baldwin to make him feel better about himself.

by **mrorangesoda** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 7:13 pm

The Mad Potter wrote:he probably has a lot of crap in his life with the divorces and fights over his kids and stuff. I don't blame him for just being burnt out and wanting something new.

He had a real rough patch in his career too. He was the IT leading man for about 5 years, and then nothing. He kind of expressed this in a New Yorker story a while back. I think he may take some time off, and some young writer/director will bring him a script that he ends up getting a bunch of acclaim for.

by **Starlord** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 7:15 pm

Wait. He thought he was acting?

by **sdsichero** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 7:20 pm

UnknownEric wrote:That would make 7-11, which is also a tragedy of its own.

In Japan it's pretty cool.

It sounds like he is unhappy that he was not a big star. Lots of actors have supporting roles and were never superstars. Well, whatever makes him happy.