City Room: Alec Baldwin Won't Give Up His Day Job to Be Mayor of New York

December 21, 2011, 2:33 pm By KATE TAYLOR

A Mayor Baldwin is not to be.

Alec Baldwin says he is no longer interested in running for New York City?s top elective office.

?I?ve lost my appetite,? Mr. Baldwin said on his weekly podcast on WNYC radio, ?Here?s the Thing,? when the person he was interviewing, the director Stephen Daldry, suggested that he run for mayor.

Mr. Baldwin partly blamed the current field of potential candidates in the 2013 mayoral race for his loss of interest, suggesting that he found their keen ambition and over-eagerness distasteful.

?They?re like a guy on a date that you can tell he just can?t wait to get his hand up your blouse before even the lights go out in the theater,? he said on the podcast, which was posted on Wednesday. ?They?re all just so horny for it.?

For his part, he said, he already has a job he likes ? appearing as the narcissistic television executive Jack Donaghy on ?30 Rock.?

?I?ve got a good job,? he said. ?Is it the most creative thing in the world? Am I doing ?The Insider? with Michael Mann? Am I doing some edgy, like finely chiseled social drama? No. Am I doing ?To Kill a Mockingbird?? No. I?m doing a sitcom. But we have fun, and it?s a family.?

?Give this up for what?? he continued. ?I give up money and fame and position and success; I give up this wonderful life I have now in exchange for the chance to really change things? Yeah, I?m not quite sure you can anymore.?

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