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" I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50. "
Kevin Bacon
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" I've played a lot of bad guys, and I'm pretty good at leaving my work at the office. And I look at acting as having a certain sort of therapeutic nature to it. "
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" I always have to make it as clear as I possibly can that fame is 99.9 percent good. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" I try to show compassion to people I come into contact with and try to put good out, as much good as I can. But that's my life; that's not my work. With my work, my job is to walk in another man's shoes. "
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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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" I don't have any plans of slowing down. I love being an actor. "
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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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Successful
" 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. "
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" Clint Eastwood has always been a hero. "
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Always
" 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
" People work so hard, and I want to keep that energy up, and you can spread that if you're the actor. But I'm also not able to turn it on and off like a faucet. A lot of what I'm called upon to play is violent or angry. When I'm messing around with the crew and making jokes, I remember, 'Oh, this is the guy I normally am.' "
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" I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music. "
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Made
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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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" We are being choked to death by the amount of plastic that we throw away. It's killing our oceans. It's entering into our bodies in the fish we eat. "
Kevin Bacon
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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. "
Kevin Bacon
Character
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" Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good. "
Kevin Bacon
Percent
Good
Celebrity
" 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'. "
Kevin Bacon
Time
Mind
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" Do you want to be the guy with a game named after you or be the one with 18 Oscar nominations? "
Kevin Bacon
Game
Guy
Oscar
" I have a natural swagger. "
Kevin Bacon
Swagger
Natural
" I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else. "
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" When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song. "
Kevin Bacon
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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 are two things that create opportunities. One is being involved with something that makes money, and the other is winning awards. And the reason that winning the awards creates the opportunities is because it gives the people who are selling the picture the opportunity to make more money. "
Kevin Bacon
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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
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Girl
" 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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Stage
" 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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Situation
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