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" In my movie work, if I do one guy, the next guy I do, I want to do something kind of different. Even in terms of genre - it's really great to mix it up a little. "

Kevin Bacon

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" 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. "

" Things could be worse. You remember that, and you go on with your life. "

" 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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" Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him. "

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

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

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" '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. "

" L.A. kind of scares me. "

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

" 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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" If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring. "

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" I like to play characters, man. I almost don't even think of them as good guys or bad guys. I know that's a hard thing to realize, but I really just think of them as characters. "

" 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.' "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is. "