Kevin Bacon Quotes
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There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.
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I'm new to this TV thing, at least as an actor. It's a challenge. The thing I have to adjust to is the changing directors every week. That's new for me. I tend to establish with a director - and then two days later, he's gone.
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Some people have therapy, some people are alcoholics or they're in AA. Some people jump out of planes on weekends or find ways to release this kind of thing. And for me, it's acting. I find acting very therapeutic for whatever it is.
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Doing funny scary is something that is rarely good and rarely works, and it's also something that's incredibly hard to market.
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When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other.
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I do better on the first three takes; I won't be better at 20 takes.
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Show me an actor who doesn't want to be famous, and I'll show you a liar. Later, you realise that there's more to it than just the acquisition of fame, and money and girls. But that is what drives them and was what drove me, initially.
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I always have a suitcase ready to go. My wife and I are both very much like this. We're both vagabonds, and we have been since the time we were married.
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A moustache is actually the one thing I really can grow. One of the bad parts about my facial hair situation is that I can't grow sideburns. I'm happy to still have my own hair on my head, but I can't grow any sideburns. If you ever see me with sideburns, they're not real.
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I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.
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There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.
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I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at.
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My kids don't watch my movies. What I want to do is go home and hug my kids, talk to them and engage with them.
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I'm a vagabond. I have a suitcase that is ready to go at a moment's notice. The thought of being in one place for a long time, or playing one character for a long time, is terrifying for me.
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Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.
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I started working in the mid-to-late Seventies, when television was not what it is now.
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There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous, and those who are liars.
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Whether it's my age or my misspent youth, sometimes I forget whether I've worked with somebody or not.
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If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.
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I'd always tried not to worry about the size of the role or the size of the film.
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'X-Men: First Class' was fun.
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You can sit around and complain that Hollywood doesn't make any good movies. But you can generate your own material. So I read books. I come up with ideas. I was the producer on 'The Woodsman' to help get that off the ground. Sometimes that extends itself to directing.
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There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep.
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I'll be honest with you. My kids don't watch my movies and never have. I can maybe name a film one hand that they've seen, actually, all the way through.