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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. "

Kevin Bacon

Woman

Strong

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" One of the top comments I get from people is, 'Oh my God, you're like a regular person!' That's kind of a bizarre thing to live with. I know a lot of famous people, and their lives may not be regular, but they are regular people. "

" My family survived losing money to Bernie Madoff incredibly well compared to others. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" You have to have something in your life that's more important than the work. People don't really like to admit that. They say, 'Oh, my work is my most important thing.' "

" I'm new to this TV thing, at least as an actor. It's a challenge. The thing I have to adjust to is the changing directors every week. That's new for me. I tend to establish with a director - and then two days later, he's gone. "

Kevin Bacon

Two

Week

" I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing with you and putting make-up on you and telling you when to wake up and when to go to sleep, holding your hand to cross the street. I can do it up to a certain point, and then I start to feel like a puppet. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act. "

" There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry. "

Kevin Bacon

Most

Singing

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

" 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. "

" When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song. "

" 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. "

" I don't have any plans of slowing down. I love being an actor. "

" I have a natural swagger. "

Kevin Bacon

Swagger

Natural

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

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

" 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

" 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. "

Kevin Bacon

Grow

You

" From the time I signed on to 'The Following,' things have already vastly changed in the entertainment world in general. It's an adjustment for me. "

Kevin Bacon

Things

Entertainment

" Great writing makes great television. "

" 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. "

" Doing funny scary is something that is rarely good and rarely works, and it's also something that's incredibly hard to market. "