Kevin Bacon Quotes
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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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'X-Men: First Class' was fun.
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If you take me out of it, I find 'six degrees' to be a beautiful concept that we should try to live by. It's about compassion and responsibility for everyone on the planet.
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I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.
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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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There's this American dream to put enough away that you can golf and build a birdhouse or just be in a Barcalounger watching football all day. I'll never be that guy. And I'm not really sure the people who have that are all that happy. Our desires as a man are to work, plow ahead, and overcome conflict.
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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 think of myself more as a workhorse actor. It will be hot and cold and up and down, but no one will kick me out of the business.
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I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.
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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 do better on the first three takes; I won't be better at 20 takes.
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There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.
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I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.
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I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.
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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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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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I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.
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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 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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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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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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If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.
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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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Whether it's my age or my misspent youth, sometimes I forget whether I've worked with somebody or not.