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"I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor"

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LaPaglia’s compliment lands like a well-aimed backhand: warm on the surface, quietly loaded underneath. Calling the Baldwins “boys” frames them as a set, a recognizable clan-brand in Hollywood mythology, where family becomes shorthand for talent, temper, and tabloid gravity. It’s affectionate, but it also shrinks grown men into a category the industry can package and gossip about.

The real sting (and charm) is in “almost too smart to be an actor.” On paper, it’s praise for Alec Baldwin’s intellect and verbal dexterity. In context, it’s also a sly acknowledgment of an old show-business suspicion: acting is supposed to be instinctive, even animal, while “smart” implies self-awareness, control, and the capacity to overthink the moment to death. LaPaglia is admiring Baldwin’s articulation while hinting at the professional hazard that comes with it: intelligence can read as distance, irony, or performance-about-performance.

There’s also an industry politics embedded here. “Super-articulate” is a currency in a town that rewards good talkers in interviews, auditions, and power rooms. LaPaglia positions Baldwin as someone who can spar with writers and directors, not just take direction. That’s both flattering and faintly threatening; it suggests Alec’s brain might compete with the machinery that prefers actors pliable.

The line works because it flatters a peer while reinforcing a romantic stereotype: the best actors are brilliant, but not so brilliant they can’t still disappear into the role.

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LaPaglia, Anthony. (2026, January 15). I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-like-the-baldwin-boys-a-great-deal-alec-is-97789/

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LaPaglia, Anthony. "I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-like-the-baldwin-boys-a-great-deal-alec-is-97789/.

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"I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-like-the-baldwin-boys-a-great-deal-alec-is-97789/. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.

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Anthony LaPaglia (born January 31, 1959) is a Actor from USA.

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