Daniel Baldwin Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

I tell people, if you really want me to look that good, why don't you cough up about $2 million more and hire Alec or Billy? If you want me to do it, this is what you get.

The one thing that disturbs me about Alec is that people don't realize that he's really funny.

I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.

I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.

I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people.

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.

The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.

Americans are not saving enough for retirement.

I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.

In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.

The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

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 have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Trivia

Daniel was arrested in March 2006, in a motel room under the influence of cocaine.

Daniel refused to appear on Saturday Night Live with his brothers for a Family Feud sketch.

Daniel appeared on the VH1 show Celebrity Fit Club.

Daniel worked for a big time bookie post college.

Daniel is derisively known as the T.V Baldwin.

Daniel plays No-Limit Texas Hold-em.

Daniel enjoys playing golf in his free time.

Daniel was going to pursue psychology as a major.

Daniel was the last of the Baldwin brothers to enter show business.

Daniel is considered the Black Sheep of the family.

Daniel named his son Atticus, after a character in To Kill A Mockingbird.

Daniel directed 2 films in 2000.

Daniel's mother is a cancer survivor.

Daniel's father, Alexander Rae Baldwin, Jr. was a History teacher.

Daniel's two sisters are Elizabeth Keuchler and Jane Sasso.

Daniel and Elizabeth divorced in 1996.

Daniel married Elizabeth in 1990.

Daniel's son was named after a character from his favorite film, the 1962 classic, To Kill a Mockingbird.

Daniel has a son named Atticus who was born on July 13, 1996.

Daniel's nickname is Danny.

Daniel has been married and divorced twice.

Daniel is the brother of Alec, William, and Stephen.