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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. "
Kevin Bacon
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Think
Myself
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" 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. "
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" To me, the struggle is to try to make a less-well-written or less-well-rounded character and find who they are. If you really get it, and it's all on the page, then it's really just gonna pop out at you. "
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" As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive. "
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" Keep doing what you're doing. Don't be afraid of fame. "
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" 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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" 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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" 'The River Wild' was great, with Meryl Streep. That guy was really a bad dude who was ultimately sort of fundamentally impotent in a weird way. That was kind of interesting. "
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" My brother is the lifelong musician; he made the choice to do that when we were very, very young kids. I remember him playing in bands and listening to the music he was writing in the house - he's nine years older than me. "
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" I still want to make Kyra proud of the person I am - father, husband, actor, musician. "
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" I like to hike and cook. I enjoy furniture and design - not making it, just looking at it. I'm always kind of trying to spread my interests around and try new things. "
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" 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. "
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" I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act. "
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" For my wife and I, for so many years, a lot of our identity was based on being Hollywood haters. We were like, 'We're east-coast. We're New Yorkers. This is just a place that we have to come to, but not by choice.' "
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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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" 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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" I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies. "
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" It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous. "
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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 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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" 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. "
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" I did a year of 'Guiding Light', and I was going to be a movie actor or a stage actor, but not a TV actor. That just wasn't going to happen. And obviously, things changed so remarkably. "
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" 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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" 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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