Kevin Bacon Quotes
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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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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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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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I do better on the first three takes; I won't be better at 20 takes.
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I like playing complex, interesting characters. Sometimes I don't think there's much of a strong line between right and wrong for a character. Every character is somewhere on a moral spectrum.
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If I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me and treats me like everyone else, I'm not used to it.
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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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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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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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There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.
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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'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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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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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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If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.
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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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Whether it's my age or my misspent youth, sometimes I forget whether I've worked with somebody or not.
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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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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.
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'X-Men: First Class' was fun.
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There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep.
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I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.