seller should be discouraged but true vision. there's so many great works of literature that led them to this repurposing. "lord of the flies." "the call of the wild." "gone with the wind." all would be tremendous on toilet paper." howard's end." something wicked this way comes." you get the point. this is the beginning because after all when nature calls and says, call me ishmael it's a new way to get absorbed in a novel. "piers morgan" starts now. tonight, my exclusive interview with the one and only alec baldwin. nothing is off limits. his politics. >> doi want to run for office one day. >> "30 rock." >> every week i look at the script and i say, you have to be kidding. get drunk and talk to a peacock? >> movie career. >> everybody said, you know,

it's just an honor to be nominated but you really do want to win. >> and that little problem he had with words with friends. >> we could be playing a smart word game rather than watching episodes of nbc sitcoms all the time. what could be more of a propostrous waste of our time than that? >> alec baldwin, outspoken, unapologetic and very, very funny. >> i must ask you, piers, have you ever been properly in love? i was instructed by your staff to pose this very question. >> alec baldwin. "piers morgan" interview starts now. if you're alec baldwin life is pretty damn good right now. the man's at the top of the game starring in "30 rock" and making movies. he doesn't have time to run for mayor of new york city and never afraid to say what he thinks or

leave a plane when he feels he's being annoyed. it is time for moe have some words with a friend. alec baldwin. alec, welcome. >> thank you. good to see you. >> now, we are going to come to that remarkable moment of you live tweeting your own ejection from an airplane a little later and dramatic new appearance because for all the slightly chubbier end of the cable news anchor like myself you have been the standard bearer not how to live in the gym all day and be on camera. now i see the svelte new alec baldwin. you have ruined everything. >> it is interesting because earlier this year, i realized that, you know, i worked out all the time and i wasn't achieving the results i wanted to. and i became aware of the fact it's as much about what you eat and don't eat and exercising so i gave up eating sugar. that was a really, really big thing for me. >> well, we are going to come to this extraordinary transformation later.

unsettling for me. i will have to try to do something about it. let's talk with the state of the union. president obama made the big speech last night and some themes, i guess, came out of this is that america remains a great country. that america remains a country that is revered around the world still. it can still be strong and must go back perhaps to basics, to manufacturing things. president obama said the following in the speech. >> during the great depression, america built the hoover dam and the golden gate bridge. after world war ii, we recollected our states with a system of highways. democratic and republican administrations invested in great projects that benefited everybody. from the workers who built them to the businesses that still use them today. >> and, that surely is the crux of the problem here. is that america's been in tough times before. you know, we're not in the great depression now. we near a recession.

it is not as bad as the '30s and the way america got itself out of the hole before was to build big things, to i guess inspire people at the same time as creating jobs in its own country. >> i think the united states, i mean, i have said this kind of broad banner i have waved this banner before in this kind of conversation where i say america is great and direct proportion with when we do great things and fought wars, it was clear who our enemy was and people that needed to be stopped from their aggression and so forth. in the last several decades and since through the '60s and '70s and now during the period in the middle east, i'm not quite sure that the wars that america was fighting were the best idea and the amount of money and the amount of american lives and the amount of innocent civilian lives abroad that were killed, especially in the middle east is troublesome to me. >> do you think that president obama has the gumption i guess

to carry through what he said in the speech? do you think he's going to start commissioning those kind of dreamy inspirational projects to get the whole world gasping and all? >> i'm hopeful he will and i'm -- that hope is based on the notion that presidents regardless of party have more flexibility or perceived flexibility in their second term because there's no possibility for re-election. many people play their cards pretty close to the vest and they play a rather conciliatory game is not a kind of zero sum game if you will when the other party is in control of the congress in their first term and then in the next term they let it rip, let it fly in a philosophical basis because they don't have to worry about running for office again. >> when we look at the republican candidates, down to four obviously, i did a montage to bring a smile to your face of

some of the greatest moments recently. let's watch this. >> sack remit of marriage is based on a man and woman, has been for 3,000 years and worth protecting and upholding. >> any type of sexual activity has no place in the military. >> start with the idea to have a lunar colony to mine minerals from the moon. i'm not in favor of doing that. >> how many people who would use heroin if it's legal? i don't want to use heroin so i need the laws. >> quite a good time to be a comedian, i would have thought, awelcome. >> my friends who are comedians are certainly spelling it out that way. but listen. i think the republican party is in a tough place. i want to say this in a kind of a nonpartisan way. i think the republican party's in a tough place. they seem to be mimicking the way the democrats were 30 years

ago or so. with the democrats were sorting out who the nominee was and they were battling in the primary period. when it was over, they took their ball and they went home. they didn't share. the remaining coffer that inin have and donate it to the winning party. they got a little petulent and went home. i listen to gingrich on fox say things about romney which are going to be very, very hard for gingrich to retract if romney is the nominee and i assume he will be the nominee. i mean, gingrich said the phrase, dishonest. he characterized romney as being a dishonest man which is the worst thing i think that either party can say about their own nominee and the other person but let alone your -- the member of your own party. i mean, if romney's the nominee, how gingrich backs away from that statement, i don't know

how. >> i think that's a very interesting point, isn't it? also the state of police call discourse in america right now not just between democrats and republicans, but between republicans and republicans, because once this battle gets for real, once one of the guys wins the republican race and takes on barack obama, all he has to play, assume it's mitt romney, all he has to play, repeatedly, is newt gingrich calling him dishonest. this man to be president, wants to be the president, in the race, is a dishonest man. i mean, as you say, i couldn't imagine a worse slur. >> what's happened now in the primary period and you have a very, very kind of, you know, strident group of people seeking the nomination for the republican nomination now and you have a lot of -- you have the fox news channel amplifying these kinds of statements on their behalf. you have a lot of anyone but obama rhetoric and you're going to hear it all the way to the end until the convention.

and but then that's going to end. and they're going to have one man, presumably a man unless there's a brokered convention with a woman step forward on behalf of the gop but you 'll have one man running against obama and then it's going to become more real and start to see obama listing in his commercials. there's no point in obama really running any advertising now. let this sort itself out and then have an opponent, obama will begin to categorize for everyone what he's accomplished and when you look at what obama's accomplished in office, there are quite a few wonderful things he has done. >> yeah, there are. i mean, i get a sense of a lot of americans don't fully appreciate what obama has done for america's reputation abroad, for example. >> i agree with you. listen. the war for all intents and purposes is over. the war in which we know in which a large number of american soldiers, men and women, were in eminent danger by the tens of thousands on a daily basis in iraq. that's over.

there are still people there and this is an a hornet's nest we kicked and we will have to stay there, unfortunately, for probably an indefinitely period of time. but i think that obama is responsible for finally bringing the bulk of our troops home. obama is responsible for stabilizing the economy. i mean, i thought -- i look at the republican party an i look at men who are the standardbearers of wall street, no the that obama is someone who's, you know, abjured wall street money in the campaign but i look at the men like romney who are -- they might as well put romney's picture on monopoly money he's so pro-wall street and you look at the dow, the dow is in the high 12,000s now and never give the guy credit for it. i think obama has done some wonderful things for this country. >> people will be watching this, alec, saying he looks razor smart tonight. lost a bit of weight. talking like a president. and yet, when you were given the chance to confirm if you would

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the question is, can you speak for ten seconds without alienating your base? >> now the conservative base needs to know that rick perry stands with them 100%. i believe we need to lower the corporate tax rate, fewer regulations. i believe all 10-year-old girls should be vaccinated for hpv to enter in to meaningful sexual relationships. >> alec baldwin playing texas governor rick perry on "saturday night live." i mean, obviously, it seems to me you get a little more pleasure out of tormenting them than you would from doing the stuff yourself, alec, which is a bitter disappointment to political fans of yours like myself who would love to see you run for office. >> well, you know, it's interesting you say that because i was at work today. we were shooting today. and everybody is in this frame of mind now as we're coming towards the end of the -- we have a half of the season to go and then we have presumably some

kind of a season next year which everybody thinks might be our last. and we were all saying how we're never going to have this good again and i really enjoy the opportunity to say that, that i will never, ever, ever in my life, never have a job as good as the job i have now. that's a part of what makes me think about running for office or not running for office. i have friends of mine -- i mean, you know people in the political world and you know more of them and more intimately than i ever will by virtue of your many positions in the media and the once i know, very prominent people who i won't name but some of them held very high elective office and nearly all of them try to dissuade me from running for office. you can have as much influence in certain areas from your vantage point now and so forth. i believe what i've been doing for the last 25 years, i've been

heavily involved periodically with campaign finance reform and anti-nuclear power in this country and several different issues. and most of them environmentally linked. i don't have a government position. i don't have an office. i don't have a budget. i have to do it all on my own and raise money privately from people to do that and it's been a dream of mine to hold office so i would have some of the power to do some of the things and try to create some of the reforms that i have wanted to do. >> but the way you're talking it seems to me this is not something you have completely ruled out. i mean, you have obviously not decided to go for new york mayor at the moment but is that -- >> that's a possibility. that's a possibility. that's a possibility. i mean, the only reason i say that is because right now the timetable i'm on workwise, careerwise, contracts i have signed and obligations i have would make running for mayor, for example, very, very difficult. i mean, is it something i could

do? possibly. and i see people running for mayor. i mean, to be very plain speaking, people running for mayor who i'm overwhelmingly indifferent about most of them. there's a couple of them i think if they made certain changes they would be okay and certain people i'm appalled they oar running for mayor and made so much money and appalled they're being taken seriously considering the past actions and records. >> will you see arnold schwarzenegger become governor of california, you must think to yourself, i could do at least as good a job as that? >> you'd be reading my mind if you said that. yeah. california, of course, a very unusual place where they have that kind of a very kind of a hysterical referendum procedure and ousted davis and, you know, the whole path that led if you know the story of issa and the way that they deposed gray

davis, that path and how it opened up the door for schwarzenegger was a very unusual and anomalous set of circumstances but, you know, for me, i do want to run for office one day but what it would be and when and how is still something that i'm trying to think very seriously about because, a, i'm not done doing what i'm doing now. i have at least a couple more years of this kind of work i want to do on the drawing board and, b, in political -- in the political world, two years is an eternity. i mean, whoever thought in the new york political world that spitzer would resign? whoever thought that hillary would run for the senate in whoever thought that hillary would leave the senate to become the secretary of state in the obama administration? obama who vanquished her in the primary. so many things happen in the political world over the course of two years that in that amount of time, maybe the not too distant future i'll survey that again and think is there an

opportunity for me? in new york, for example, where i live, we have safe democratic seats around the horn sort to speak. the governor and a.g. and two senate seats so i would run for and when would be something i'd have to give a lot of thought so. but in the meantime, i have a job i love. >> well, an i don't know that we love you doing. so there's no hurry on this but when you look at somebody like newt gingrich and indeed arnold schwarzenegger and you see personal stuff being used to hammer them in to the ground, would you be concerned about that? if you ran for public office, given the very well-known tri values you have had in the past? >> i would be concerned about that, sure. i would be very concerned about that. not so much for myself. i have developed -- you know, for example, i mean, to me the most, you know, kind of handy example of that is this phone message i left for my daughter and that's been -- >> yeah. >> -- that's been thrown at me by political opposition and

people that want to do that diminishing of your political opinion with those other things. my relationship with my daughter is normal. i mean, by that, i mean, i'm a father and 16-year-old daughter and communicate with my daughter as often and as effectively as a 53-year-old man can be a 16-year-old daughter. i'm trying to be funny. >> you tweet her. i read your tweets. >> i worship my daughter. we get along fine and that situation was something in which a certain group of people, you know, wanted to -- you know, create a very, very sensational news story there. and but the truth of the matter is that i have two things. one is that i have worked in this kind of silly and childish world of comedy and "saturday night live" and all of it's been very, very funny but the day you run for office you have to kind

of draw a line and say everything i was doing back then was for the most part for entertainment value. i'm on the record with some very, very firm and very, very what i think are well thought out political opinions that i have. but a lot of what i have done is kind of nonsense for entertainment purposes. >> i mean, has part of you always harbored -- be honest here. has part of you harbored the possibility to run for the presidency? >> well, i think that it's something i used to think about a long, long time ago. it would be a little late in the game for me i think to set my ship on a course that would lead to that ultimately. it is something -- that's what i wanted to do my whole life and quite frankly when i got in to the business i'm in now, it was a very on a personal level. i mean, this is a very personal thing and i have said this on a couple of occasions. it was a job that i got and i wasn't even quite sure that this is what i wanted to do. i still had this hangover of

wanting to do something else in public policy or to go get my graduate degree or to go to law school. there was a whole menu of things i was con tell plaiting but then i got a job in this business and i started to work and i got the sense that i was on a bit of a roll and i would always have work and i was -- i had no shortage of opportunities. and i really did it to -- for the money. i did it to support my family. but i'm not complaining. i'm very happy with the way it's gone. in this business, you know, it's funny. you do this for a living. you talk to people all the time. i have my radio show "here's the thing." called on wync. you see how when you get in this zone with someone that you really like an you really are engaged with and fascinated with, you could talk to them or two or three hours. you and i, we need to order sushi. i wish you were shehere, we wer

having dinner. it's become such a -- in this business, the real thrill for me, the real joy, the thing that's made me happiest are the people that i have met and gotten to work with. and it's not just the actors, although there are innumerable actors. tony hopkins. i had tears in my eyes crying when they told me i was going to make a film with tony who i admired the highest level. >> amazing guy. >> the same is true with people on the crew, the technical crew. the business is a huge collaborative colony and i'm so grateful for the people i've been able to work with. >> let's take a little break and come back and talk about the ultimate pinnacle for the people you've worked with. the oscars. i want to know who you think may win and i also want to talk to you about a few words you had with some ex friends. the employee of the month is...

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welcome back to my special guest alec baldwin. alec, the oscars are coming up. who do you fancy? >> i have some personal favorites, some people i was excited and some that i was maybe perplexed by, if you will. i know that to climb -- to climb that mountain as you know observing this business, to climb that mountain and to complete that cycle where you get the script and the movie

gets made and you shoot it and it comes out well and the distribution works and the marketing works and people buy some tickets and sometimes they buy a lot of tickets and then you get that buzz and then the votes come in and you're nominated, it is really, really a great thrill. i see george and brad and people who have made a lot of films and, you know, my hat is off to them. that's a tough, tough thing to pull off. i was nominated for an oscar for supporting actor years ago in 2004, whatever it was. and i lost to tim robbins and i remember everybody said, you know, it's just an honor to be nominated. but you really do want to win. i really would have been so grateful if i -- i'm happy for tim and admire tim but you really do want to win. i saw a really a bunch of great films this year. i saw -- i loved "melacholy." this woman is hypnotic on film. >> i totally agree. >> fanstic.

meryl i saw in "iron lady." i saw "money ball." there's a lot of wonderful films. i do think this idea, though, they have expanded the best picture category in this way was not such a good idea and i do hope they go back to just five nominees because i do think it's kind of a way that they're kind of gaming the promotional -- the promotion al equity of the oscars. now they have 60 days to market that film and say, it's an academy award nominated best picture film and i think dilluted the award to a degree. i hope they go back to just five nominees. >> i always like it when truly what i call proper stars win the big awards and i say that because i reckon and i'm not an expert but i reckon that the two best performances i have seen this year before george clooney

in "descendants" and meryl streep" in iron lady." if they were to win best actor and best actress that immediately gives the oscars that heavyweight glamour, you know? >> to the extent that the oscars, sometimes the votes as you well know even in recent history, they swing in a very wide track. they will want to honor someone for their career, they're handing career achievement award but particular work in that specific film might not have been their best work or the best work in the category. they're going to want to honor someone. who they deeply admire and whom they might have a chance to do so again. and then there's someone who just as is like a hood ornament for hollywood glamour. someone who they think is a great star and then there's someone who's not going to make a lot of movies, they might not star in a lot of movies boeing

to give them -- i mean, when roberto baneni won and climbing over the people in the audience, i mean, he didn't go on to make a lot of films in the united states but sometimes the academy decides they're going to stick that thing in the habit of the person they think gave the best performance. >> i spent last night watching you having sex with meryl streep. >> i got paid a lot of money to do that, too. >> i couldn't believe it. i was watching "it's complicated." a terrific movie. my parents were over. we all loved it. what was she like to actually work with. she is just an iconic to me the best actress alive today. what was she like? >> you know, she is -- i'm not going to say anything fresh about her or new that's not said by countless other, you know, more formidable leading men than i'll ever be. she's worked with the best

leading men in 25, 30 years but for me it was a question of beyond the kind of a sex play of the two characters where it was a man who missed his wife on a kind of chemical level. i remember i kept saying to nancy when we were worki ining whatever way we could imbue this in to the film was to point out that my character was still in love with his wife. he still loved her. it wasn't just about he wanted to sleep with her. and he missed, you know, having sex with her. he was still in love with her and deeply in love with her and the great thing is that meryl is easy to fall in love with and very easy to play love scenes with because you fall in love with her the moment you lay eyes on her. she's a great, great person. >> we'll get to air travel this time because i want the know what happened on that plane, what words were exchanged and why the airline is now an ex-friend. [ monica ] i'm away on a movie shoot

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you know, he had some trouble on the plane a couple of weeks ago and though one thing when i heard that news story, my first reaction, the thing that i was upset about, was last spring, like, seven months ago, whatever, i said to him, hey, there's fun game called words

with friends and it's a lot like scrabble but you should get it. you should get it. he's like, i don't know. you should get it. so anyway, i didn't think he ever got it because he's never invited me to play him. >> tina fey with david letterman taking the blame for introducing my guest alec baldwin to words with friends. was it her fault, alec? >> no, no, no. my advice to people is when you get on a plane, turn off your phone. try with all of your might, try with all your strength and inner resolve. >> you don't mean that alec baldwin. >> i do mean that. you don't want to have happen to you what happened to me. >> tell me -- >> no, i will say there were some extenuating circumstances. i had flown for many years on an airline where there seemed to be in the first class cabin a relaxed environment while the plane was at the gate. and we were at the gate. i want to also mention, because i'm very much of a stickler

about this, that the flight was already 45 minutes late prior to me. the plane was late prior to anything that happened so i don't think that they could pin all that on me and my cell phone but i was on this plane and then all of a sudden i was in the presence of someone for whom all those rules changed and we were going to have a very, very kind of a soviet-level enforcement of the rules if you will in an instance and done without any -- no quarter. it was done very brutally. this woman was very harsh and very, very snappy and i reacted badly to that. i got real, really, very upset and then i was asked to get off the plane. and get on another plane. and to the extent as i said that i inconvenienced everybody else on the flight i was very, very sorry and i mean when i say when you get on the plane, i mean, even though most people i think

are aware that the rules about the stuff while they're on the ground or certainly while they're at the gate, the rules are stupid and inname and something you have to contend with. just turn your phone off while you're in flight and the other thing -- >> you are on this plane. >> right. >> you are on this plane, how are you feeling as this woman is giving you this lecture? other people around you, presumably knew it was you as the scene unfolds. how are you feeling? embarrassed? angry? >> i was very embarrassed and upset because i thought, you know, first of all, there were people -- i mean, the joke obviously when i got off the plane is there were four other guys twittering from their cell phones as i was getting kicked off the plane for using my cell phone. >> yes. >> but i have heard a lot of people say that's a weak defense to say, well, everybody else was doing it and they do have a point but i did feel this woman, she had kind of marched directly at me and toward me and singled

me out. maybe she is kind of a christian conservative republican who's, you know, on the payroll there. i don't know. but she was very -- yeah, she was very ardent and tough and really, really came at me with everything she had. she was pretty blistering but the truth of the matter is that in the end, turn your phone off when you're on the plane. that's what i've learned, literally, really. >> if american airlines spent more time apologizing to you as a paying first class regular passenger for donkey's years for inconvenience of being kept waiting 45 minutes rather than focusing on a harmless game you're playing when you're at the gate, then perhaps they wouldn't have slipped in to the bankruptcy position they found themselves in. to me, it's utterly ridiculous. >> i'll let you say that. >> i just did. >> but i mean, american airlines is in bankruptcy. american arms is irlines is in f trouble and i feel bad for them.

i flew exclusively for them 25 years. they had a deal with united or another company and i could see where the people at the airline are under pressure, not sure about their job skourt security. i'm understanding of that, as well. >> i agree with you an a part i think comes down to customer service. you have to look after your clients. would you fly american again? >> i guess if they gave us -- if they gave us a device on board that we could play words with friends while we were flying on the plane with other people on the plane. play words with friends with other people on board. press seat 3-j. press seat 41-23. would you like to play words with friends? that's a super idea. we could be playing a smart word game rather than watching episodes of nbc sitcoms all the time. what could be more of a proprost

rous waste of our time than that? >> the trouble was hugely entertaining and another great love of yours which is twitter because the most devastating fallout for me is you went out for twitter for a moment. thank god you came back. let's talk about twitter after the break. i'm phil mickelson, pro golfer.

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you already know what i would say and you know i'm right. >> i'm ignoring you. you're not here.

who's not here, liz? i love you. i love you too. >> i might as well meet him and get it over with. i'll probably love him. we're both princeton men. >> princeton? no. chris went to -- no. i'm on to you. i won't talk about him. >> you can't keep me out. >> alec baldwin starring in "30 rock." my favorite character ever, i think. i love that man. i love him. >> it's been a thrill for me because i said countless times, the writing is so good. we have great writers and give you the scripts and you -- every week i get the script and i look at them and i go, you got to be kidding me. you want me to what? get drunk and talk to a peacock. i think my boss has gone to the body. rip torn's is in the body of a peacock. play a patty duke, you know, twin character who i talk to myself in the scene? i play a mexican soap opera actor. the stuff they have me do, it's

insane but fun. >> it is a fantastic show. do you get more or less fun from twitter than you do from "30 rock"? >> more fun from "30 rock" than anything but twitter, when i first went in that direction, what i liked about it up until i stopped is that it's -- it was a direct way and a very terse way, a very kind of concise way to communicate directly with your fans. so much of what people do is stuff like this where we talk to a producer and work out a time and a segment and your staff is very, very kind and very, very kind of cooperative with me to try to make this happen in a certain time and everything. but doing this, with filtering who you are through a television show which is more direct but even more difficult as a magazine and a writer, twitter removes that and it's you writing what you want to write directly to people instantly. and i was very, very fond of

that possibility. but then i realized that talking to people on twitter might not be such a good idea because a lot of people, they want to just attack you an they want to kind of wrestle with you and they want to -- >> yeah, but the great thing about you, alec, you react like i do. you're visceral and raw and you get stuck in to this these people and retweet the abuse and get -- >> i love getting down in the mud with them and wrestling in the mud with them and i see you give as good as you get, too, i love this. >> yeah. >> i thought i'm going to stop and hit the reset button and come back on twitter and have a different program where the people who come on who attack you in a very vulgar way, for example, there's no thought behind it, people say to me, i think you're stance against nuclear power is idiotic because i'll retweet that or discuss that. but people who say, i'd like to

beep you in your beep because you're a beeping beep then i delete them, i block them. yeah. >> it is quite fun, though, isn't it? it is rather addictive. >> it can be. i mean, you and i'm a big fan of yours because you love to communicate and you want to communicate something smart and relevant and want to kind of whittle it down and get down to the core, to the marrow of what you think really, really matters and focus attention on things you think are important and really, rally matters. god knows we live in a country where it doesn't matter but i -- and i like twitter for that. >> well, you're great entertainment. if anyone's not following you, i commend it to you. with great enthusiasm. let's take a final break. come back and talk love, alec. i want to talk to you about your love life. [ jody ] four course feast. man it's great. the guests love it.

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back now with my guest, alec baldwin. i have got to congratulate you because you have had, as i have, and many people have, had a checkered past romantically in many ways, yet you findal found almost utopia, a woman who was a yoga expert who had hans formed

you into the adonis we're seeing, who never watched "30 rock" doesn't own a television. this is the perfect woman for you, isn't it? >> yeah, yeah. which is funny because i was -- it is true that what people always say, and it's tough to make your way to that place, i guess, where you stop looking. you know, i was married and i was with somebody for ten years and then i got divorced and dated people and had one girlfriend for several years. then i kind of right before i met elaria, i did lay in my bed and say, this is it. i'm going to be alone for the rest of my life. i'm going to die alone in this apartment in this bed. i'll have my friends, i'll have twitter. i'll have words with friends. i'll have my new yorker s subscription. i'll have my table at elio's i'll have my quiet life, quiet and happy life.

right when i put it all on the shelf and it was over, i walked into a restaurant downtown and i met this woman who is probably one of the greatest people i have ever met in my life as a person, forget about the whole man/woman thing. >> but i must ask you, piers, have you ever been properly in love. i was instructed by your staff to pose this very question to you. >> i have been properly in love. >> you have? >> i was about to ask you how many times you have been properly in love in your life? >> the past is just a blur to me now, piers. it's a blur. now is the time. now is all that matters. the woman am i with currently is the only woman i have ever been in love with. everything else was just child's play before now. i wasn't properly in love. >> you actually do a brilliant

british acsent. >> no, not really. i really don't. i'm very, very happy. and i have a great line, i'm going to quote tony bennett. and tony is married to susan. and he's a few years older than susan. i went to tony's school, to visit the frank sinatra high school for the performing arts that tony and susan built. his wife is a wonderful partner of his in their exploring the arts program. i said, i'm dating a woman who is younger than i am. she's a lot younger than i am. i sometimes think about that. i know, tony, you're with susan and you're quite a bit older than her. he looked at me said and, people say that to me all the time, and i say to them, consider the alternative. i want to thank tony for that perspective. you have a baby, correct? a child? >> i -- my wife gave birth to a baby gif a few months ago. >> how long ago? >> two months ago.

>> a two mold ba-month-old baby. you're sprier and perky for a man with a 2-month-old child. does she sleep well? >> she doesn't sleep too badly. have you thought about any alec baldwins? >> more kids? sure, that would be great, heaven. fantast. as my friend said to me, when you have children, typically in a second marriage, when you're older and get married again to a woman who would have children, you must always remember that you make sure that they attend a college where the commencement ceremonies are held in a facility with a wheelchair accessible ramp. >> i have to ask you this, alec, i ask everyone this. outside of children and marriage, what has been the single greatest moment of your life? the moment if i could relive it for you right now, you would ask to relive it?

>> there's a few of them. i mean, there's quite a few of them. but i think i was driving in a car, you know, becoming involved in the political process is something that has great meaning to me, and i had traveled around the western part of the state of massachusetts in 1994 to campaign for teddy kennedy's re-election. and his nephew, ethyl kennedy's son michael kennedy, was my in-state coordinator of my activitie activities. i went to massachusetts for four consecutive four-day weekends in the month of october 1994 to cover all of these community colleges and these different stops. we covered a lot of ground, we went to a lot of small venues because it was presumed that kennedy already had the boston democratic vote in his pocket. so we went out to western massachusetts. when we wurn done, we were driving back to town to jump on a plane. we were driving from

williamstown or springfield across the state to go to logan and fly home. and the phone rang. i was in the van with the late michael kennedy, who died, unfortunately, and teddy kennedy called me and said if i win this race, you're partly responsible for this. you put your blick in the wall of my campaign, and i'll never be able to repay you or thank you. i got the call and i felt like i was going to cry because i worked so hard to try to puff my little wind into the sails of teddy's campaign because people were saying that he was going to lose that race. >> fantastic moment. it's been a real pleasure. you have covered -- we straddled almost every divide imaginable, but it's been a delight. you're an ambassador for the sag foundation. tell me about that. >> the s.a.g. awards are on sunday. this weekend, and the foundation