Kevin Bacon Quotes
I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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Any actor wants their movies and their work to be seen. You don't make a movie or get into this profession for your work not to be seen and just to show them to your mates at home.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
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I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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As hitters, I think we take for granted at times how good our hands are and just how much the value of truly getting the barrel to the ball is. We don't have to do as much as we think we have to.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate.
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But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
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You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you ask them to devote 20 minutes a year to having their car emissions inspected, they will vote 80 to 20 against it. We are a long way in this country from taking individual responsibility for the environmental problem.
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I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.
