Inside Alec Baldwin And Tina Fey's Relationship

Things could've been very different if Baldwin had had his way. As the veteran actor and comedian admitted in his book, Nevertheless: A Memoir, via an excerpt published in Vanity Fair, when he first laid eyes on Fey, it was love at first sight. "Beautiful and brunette, smart and funny, by turns smug and diffident and completely uninterested in me or anything I had to say ...I fell in love," he revealed, admitting he was disappointed to learn the comedy queen wasn't available and, moreover, her husband was within earshot.

30 Rock was, by Baldwin's estimation, his greatest role. As he described in Nevertheless, filming the finale episode was incredibly emotional as it was, "The best job I ever had, that I will ever have." For her part, Fey totally agreed, saying she cherished, "Every day of my seven years with Alec Baldwin," and credits her co-star with keeping the show going (via Cheat Sheet).