Alec Baldwin threatened to quit acting to save his family from the constant invasion of privacy.

If it sometimes looks like the media has singled out Alec Baldwin for public attacks, the "30 Rock" star agrees. Alec Baldwin dumped on privacy-invading media and the public "obsession" with celebrities private lives in a column he wrote for the Huffington Post.

Alec Baldwin says the paparazzi "provoke me, daily, by getting dangerously close to me with their cameras as weapons, hoping I will react."

Actor Alec Baldwin is thinking about quitting his Hollywood career and pointing fingers at the media, Mayor Bloomberg and Congress. He wrote "If quitting the television business, the movie business, the theater, any component of entertainment, is necessary in order to bring safety and peace to my family, then that is an easy choice."

Alec Baldwin lands in the papers almost weekly with another story of a run-in with paparazzi. The actor lives in Manhattan, where most artists are generally left alone in their private lives. But photographers not only stake out his house, but get in his face because they know he has a temper and they might land one of those headlines themselves.

But Alec Baldwin didn't stop with the paparazzi. The actor, who has worked with some of the best directors in Hollywood, also took on the media in general, Mayor Bloomberg and Congress.

Baldwin wrote, "This country's obsession with the private lives of famous people is tragic. It's tragic in the sense that it is so clearly a projection of people's frustration about their government, their economy, their own spiritual bankruptcy. You have no voice in Washington."

The outspoken liberal performer recently had his MSNBC talk show furloughed because of an alleged anti-gay outburst. One of the programs that will not be shown is a piece on the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination. He said "Whether the show comes back at all is at issue right now. But if the show dies, its fate ends up being no different than the vast majority of startup TV programming, and so be it."

A source on the show told the Daily News that there are no plans to cancel the show, saying "Nothing has changed, this same cycle of speculation has followed previous incidents, without anything changing."

Alec Baldwin has other problems showing up at his door besides photographers, Genevieve Sabourin is serving seven months for stalking the actor.

Baldwin defended himself against anti-gay claims. He asserts that what he was said in the heat of the moment after a personal invasion, he called the reporter a "(expletive) fag" said "Hey, you just assaulted me." Baldwin wrote "My friends who happen to be gay are baffled by this. They see me as one who has recently fought for marriage equality and has been a supporter of gay rights for many years." He continued "What word is said right after the other choice word I use is unclear. But the assertion that I am a bigoted homophobe travels at light speed ... without fact or reflection, (it) is accepted, even cheered."

Baldwin says it is the outgoing mayor's policies that allows the paparazzi to stalk his personal space "In Bloomberg's New York, 40 or 50 paparazzi are allowed to block streets, inconvenience homeowners, workers and shoppers, and make life miserable for my neighbors. They provoke me, daily, by getting dangerously close to me with their cameras as weapons, hoping I will react. When I do, the weapon doubles as a device to record my reaction."