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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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" 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

Opportunity

Winning

People

" 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. "

" Whether it's my age or my misspent youth, sometimes I forget whether I've worked with somebody or not. "

" I'll be honest with you. My kids don't watch my movies and never have. I can maybe name a film one hand that they've seen, actually, all the way through. "

" 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. "

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

" 'Kung Fury!' I mean, Jesus, that thing is amazing. "

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

" 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. "

" Show me an actor who doesn't want to be famous, and I'll show you a liar. Later, you realise that there's more to it than just the acquisition of fame, and money and girls. But that is what drives them and was what drove me, initially. "

" 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.' "

" '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. "

" 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

" My father was into fame and leaving his mark. He was a city planner, sort of a genius in that world, the Robert Moses of Philadelphia. He was on the cover of 'Time' once, and I remember going to his office and seeing, like, two hundred copies, which he would hand out to people. "

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

" If you take me out of it, I find 'six degrees' to be a beautiful concept that we should try to live by. It's about compassion and responsibility for everyone on the planet. "

Kevin Bacon

Beautiful

You

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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

Great

Kind

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

" I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books. "

Kevin Bacon

Books

Watching

" 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. "

" Here's the thing - I mean, I don't act for statues. I really don't. The great thing about winning an award is that it creates opportunities. "

" 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. "

" Keep doing what you're doing. Don't be afraid of fame. "

" 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. "

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

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