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" 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. "

Kevin Bacon

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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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Clint Eastwood has always been a hero. "

" 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. "

" I like to hike and cook. I enjoy furniture and design - not making it, just looking at it. I'm always kind of trying to spread my interests around and try new things. "

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

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

" 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 don't have to do the lead. If I dig a part, I'll do it. "

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

" If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like he's a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you're on your way into the grave. "

" My brother is the lifelong musician; he made the choice to do that when we were very, very young kids. I remember him playing in bands and listening to the music he was writing in the house - he's nine years older than me. "

Kevin Bacon

Brother

Listening

" I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" I have a natural swagger. "

Kevin Bacon

Swagger

Natural

" 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 want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game. "

" 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. "