Alec Baldwin — never one for cool, calm, rational discussion — has been known to go off the rails for any reason. A missed phone call or instructions to turn off his phone can send the “30 Rock” actor into a rage against any number of subjects, including:
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1. This photographer
Alec Baldwin gets into a fight with photographer Paul Adao. Startraks Photo Aug. 27, 2013: Just days after he and yoga-instructor wife, Hilaria, welcomed a baby girl into the world, Baldwin allegedly accosted a photographer in the West Village. Freelance shutterbug Paul Adao was shooting video footage when the actor grabbed and pinned him against a car near The Grey Dog on University Place. A shaken Adao called cops.
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2. (Actually all photographers)
June 19, 2012: Baldwin called for the waterboarding of photographers.
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3. Florida
Shutterstock July 13, 2013: Baldwin probably won’t be retiring in Florida. He tweeted about the Sunshine State: “Florida is a parallel universe. A f–ked up one.”
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4. George Stark
June 27, 2013: After the Daily Mail reported that Baldwin’s wife Hilaria was tweeting while at James Gandolfini’s funeral, the bloviator attacked the newspaper writer with violent threats and homophobic slurs. “I’m gonna find you, George Stark, you toxic little queen, and I’m gonna f–k…you…up,” Baldwin tweeted. “If (sic) put my foot up your f–king ass, George Stark, but I’m sure you’d dig it too much.”
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5. Shia LaBeouf's vocabulary
March 6, 2013: Page Six detailed the backstage drama between Baldwin and Shia LaBeouf, who briefly worked together in Broadway’s “Orphans.” LaBeouf posted an e-mail exchange with Baldwin. After the actor complained of fatigue, LaBeouf wrote, “I’m a hustler. I don’t get tired. I’m 26, chief.” Baldwin responded on Feb. 10, 2013: “Listen, boy. I’m not your [bleep]in’ chief. You got that? Ha. Hahahahaha. Let’s go.”
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6. New York Post reporters
Alec Baldwin grabbing New York Post reporter Tara Palmeri Feb. 10, 2013: Baldwin allegedly uttered racial slurs at Post photographer Gary Miller outside the actor’s home. The veteran Post shooter, also a retired NYPD detective, reported that Baldwin called him a “coon,” “crackhead” and a “drug dealer.” Baldwin also grabbed the arm of Post reporter Tara Palmeri, telling her, “I want you to choke to death.”
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7. Turning off your phone at takeoff
Dec. 6, 2011: The loudmouth was kicked off an American Airlines flight at LAX when he refused to turn off his smartphone. He then went off on a misogynistic rant against a flight attendant: “Last flight w American. Where retired Catholic school gym teachers from the 1950s find jobs as flight attendants.”
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8. Moms
Nov. 28, 2011: For reasons completely unknown, Baldwin mocked social media users who identify themselves as proud mothers. “I love how all these ppl write `mom’ in their profile,” he wrote.
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9. Grieving families
Sept. 21, 2011: Baldwin, opposed to the execution of convicted cop killer Troy Davis in Georgia, shockingly took it out on loved ones of slain officer Mark McPhail. He tweeted: “Wonder if the McPhail family will seek death penalty for US leaders who killed thousands of US soldiers and countless innocent Iraqis.”
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10. 'Queen' baristas
Sept. 7, 2011: Baldwin turned his rage on an Upper West Side Starbucks barista, who apparently didn’t serve him with a smile.
“Starbucks on 93 and B’Way. Uptight Queen barista named JAY has an attitude problem,” he tweeted. “Starbucks on 93 and B’Way. Uptight Queen barista named JAY has an attitude problem,” the actor tweeted.
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11. His 11-year-old daughter
Alec Baldwin with his daughter Ireland in 2013. Zuma Press April 11, 2007: In the gold standard of all Baldwin rants, the loudmouth went off on his daughter Ireland. He told the then 11-year-old in a voice mail: “You are a rude, thoughtless little pig. You don’t have the brains or the decency as a human being. I don’t give a damn that you’re 12 years old, or 11 years old, or that you’re a child, or that your mother is a thoughtless pain in the ass who doesn’t care about what you do as far as I’m concerned.”
Baldwin was mad that he and Ireland couldn’t hook up on pre-arranged phone calls.
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12. Horse-drawn cabs
AP May 28, 1992: Baldwin galloped into a homophobic rage during a City Hall hearing on horse-drawn carriages. A plainclothes police officer reportedly had to separate Baldwin from a horse cab operator. And as Baldwin walked away, he muttered “f—-t” and challenged the man, “Come on, come on out.”