Quotes by 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.

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.

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?

Guess what? There's more and more compelling evidence that if you feed a child a steady diet of Marilyn Manson and violent video games and hyper-sexual imagery... something needs to be done.

I didn't really party until college.

I look for an interesting and oftentimes, fresh character. Something different that what is done all the time or than I've done recently. I look at who is directing. Thos 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.

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.

I see myself much more so as an actor. Acting is my career, and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livlihood. I was an activist long before I even entertained the possiblity of being an actor.

I've been involved with the Creative Coalition since shortly after the founding... I love to really roll up my sleeves and get my hands dirty on any level when it comes to these sorts of issues... on a grass roots level or a clerical level. I love to educate myself and others and help raise awareness on important issues.

My father was kind of a local pillar of the community, a high-school teacher and football coach. He was always very politically knowledgeable because he was a social studies teacher. But in terms of his activism, it was more social and charitable in nature, rather than political.