I was very competitive with my brothers when I was younger. Now we are all in completely different worlds. Im not in direct competition with my brothers for anything, ever. Stephen and I and Billy and I are better at staying in touch with each other. Danny is married, he has a new baby and he is very peripatetic, he goes to golfing tournaments and charity things. He really travels a lot.

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.

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.

[American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over.

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

I never walked out the door and said, "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest Baldwin brother of them all?"

To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.