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Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And thats the terrible conflict. You have to be free to jump off into that volcano and you have to be pathologically self-conscious.

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Alec Baldwin
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: April 3
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Alexander Rae Baldwin III
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