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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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" The most challenging work and the best work I've ever done was in a thing I did for PBS called 'Lemon Sky', a play by Lanford Wilson. I think it's the rawest, most complex work that I've had to do, and the thing I'm most proud of. "

Kevin Bacon

Work

Think

Sky

" Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent. "

" I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game. "

" There is a lesson there about greed and it is a lesson I am willing to learn as well. Has it made me a distrustful person? I don't think so. But we probably look a bit more carefully at our financial situation now. "

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Think

I Am

" I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50. "

" I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. "

" 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. "

" I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about. "

" Somebody with a billion followers can tweet, 'See my movie,' and it can still tank. Followers don't always translate into success because I think people are too savvy. When something takes off, it's because people are connecting to it - not because someone with a lot of followers says to care about it. "

" 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

Fun

" I started making movies in 1977, and I didn't even think about the idea that I would ever be on a television show. Once I finished the 'Guiding Light,' I was like, 'I'm done with television!' "

" I was in the first 'Friday The 13th,' and that was a microbudget horror film. "

" I wasn't going off to New York to be more famous than my father, but in retrospect, that certainly was driving me. He was famous in Philadelphia, but it was also really important to him to be famous. And to a certain extent, I got some of that, even though there were parts of it that horrified me. "

Kevin Bacon

Famous

New York

" 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. "

" I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic. "

" The way I analyze a script, I don't look at how many days I have off. I see how far they're going to push me. That's just the way I am. "

" 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. "

Kevin Bacon

Great

Laugh

" My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him. "

" I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible. "

" I always have to make it as clear as I possibly can that fame is 99.9 percent good. "

" I still want to make Kyra proud of the person I am - father, husband, actor, musician. "

" 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. "

Kevin Bacon

Character

" A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly. "

" I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though. "

" 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.' "

" I started working in the mid-to-late Seventies, when television was not what it is now. "

" 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. "

" There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content. "

" I used to live on Riverside Park in New York, on the Upper West Side. "

" I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy. "