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" Being with Kyra is so natural for me; it's the easiest aspect of my life. I know that I don't need a beach or room service to be happy. "
Kevin Bacon
Happy
Beach
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" There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content. "
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" Fame is something that is tough when it comes. It's a weird thing to take on in real life. I was a little bit afraid and, as a result, kind of turned my back on it. You should embrace it because it's going to be a part of who you are, and it's going to be a part of what this business is about. "
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" I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game. "
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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'm an actor. It's what I do. It's what I chose to do with my life when I was a little boy, and that's what Im still doing. I like to work. I came up with a work ethic, and that's just what I do. "
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Doing
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" I still want to make Kyra proud of the person I am - father, husband, actor, musician. "
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Want
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" L.A. kind of scares me. "
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" There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep. "
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Actor
" I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me. "
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You
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" I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public when they fail. "
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Prove
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Successful
" The whole industry is changing because so many people watch things on DVR, and they watch things on other platforms, and I think everybody is kind of scratching their heads about how this is going to play out. "
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Kind
Watch
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" The greats are 'The Shining', 'Rosemary's Baby', 'Don't Look Now', 'The Exorcist' - those movies were not really slashers: they were about psychological terror and had very deep emotional backdrops. If we do our best, '6 Miranda Drive' can be that kind of a movie. "
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Baby
Look
Best
" The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie. "
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Amazing
You
People
" Kevin's mind goes to extremely interesting places. Every time we get a script, I go, 'Oh my God, I really didn't see that coming'. "
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Time
Mind
See
" Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live. "
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Live
Learning
Failure
" 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. "
Kevin Bacon
Power
Like
Fun
" When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song. "
Kevin Bacon
Music
Voice
Song
" Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough. "
Kevin Bacon
Criticism
Not Good Enough
Good
" There is this idea that your social media platform is the secret to success, but no one has quite proven that to be true, if you ask me. "
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Social Media
Me
Media
" Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good. "
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Percent
Good
Celebrity
" 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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" Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him. "
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Impossible
Off
Him
" I'm very comfortable being married to an extremely strong, opinionated, and driven woman. But I also sit at the head of the table. I have both of those sides to me. "
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Woman
Strong
Me
" I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books. "
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Books
Watching
Like
" 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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Movies
Good
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" There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they're every bit the celebrity and a lot of them aren't any more qualified than the average man on the street. "
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Street
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You
" I have fond memories of Chris Penn, who's sadly not with us. He always made me laugh - it was great to be with him. "
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Me
Great
Laugh
" With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is. "
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You
Through
See
" 'Animal House' was my first movie, so I didn't have anything to compare it to. I was a sight gag more than anything else. So I can't say it was one of those things where your life changes. When the movie came out, I had to ask for the night off at the bar. "
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Life Changes
Life
Animal
" With 'Transparent'. When Amazon put 'Transparent' up, along with 'Bosch' and a few other things, I watched them, and I thought it was an interesting exercise. I didn't comment on them, but I was like, 'Okay, this is kind of cool.' "
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