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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 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. "

Kevin Bacon

Life

Good

Work

" I'm an actor. It's what I do. It's what I chose to do with my life when I was a little boy, and that's what Im still doing. I like to work. I came up with a work ethic, and that's just what I do. "

" L.A. kind of scares me. "

Kevin Bacon

Scares

Kind

" The greats are 'The Shining', 'Rosemary's Baby', 'Don't Look Now', 'The Exorcist' - those movies were not really slashers: they were about psychological terror and had very deep emotional backdrops. If we do our best, '6 Miranda Drive' can be that kind of a movie. "

" If you look at my movie career, I do switch it up a lot. I'm always looking for a lot of different parts. It's been a while since I've been in a situation that was romantic. "

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

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

" I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though. "

" 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. "

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

" Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough. "

" If I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me and treats me like everyone else, I'm not used to it. "

Kevin Bacon

Someone

Situation

" Do you want to be the guy with a game named after you or be the one with 18 Oscar nominations? "

" 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

" '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. "

" 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. "

Kevin Bacon

Think

I Am

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Clint Eastwood has always been a hero. "

" 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. "

Kevin Bacon

Wife

Time

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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