Being a movie star wasn't enough. Alec Baldwin knew he had to go back to college and get those last four credits for his degree.

"It's going to come in handy down the road," the 35-year-old actor said Thursday as he accepted the bachelor's degree from New York University and talked of going to graduate school.Baldwin, who was studying political science and drama, was four credits short when he dropped out of NYU in 1980.

He finished up with an independent study project in which he interviewed a famous actor - he won't say who it was he interviewed.

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