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Kevin Bacon [1958-0] American

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Actor

Kevin Norwood Bacon is an American actor and musician whose films include musical-drama film Footloose, the controversial historical conspiracy legal thriller JFK, the legal drama A Few Good Men, the historical docudrama Apollo 13, and the mystery drama Mystic River.

Famous, Movies, Anger, Car, Dad, Dreams, Failure, Fear, Learning, Life, Love, Romantic, Sad, Success

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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.	Anger, Fear, Life, Sad	101
I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.	Love	102
Fame is very much a double-edged sword.		103
Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.	Famous	104
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.		105
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.	Failure, Learning, Success	106
I have a natural swagger.		107
There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous, and those who are liars.	Famous	108
A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.		109
I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.		110
I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.		111
If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.		112
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.		113
I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.	Movies	114
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.	Movies	115
With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is.		116
When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.		117
My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him.	Dad, Famous	118
There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.		119
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.		120
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.		121
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.		122
My kids don't watch my movies. What I want to do is go home and hug my kids, talk to them and engage with them.	Movies	123
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.		124
I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.		125
As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.		126
Clint Eastwood has always been a hero.		201
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.		202
I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.		203
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.	Car, Dreams	204
I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.		205
It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous.		206
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.		207
Things could be worse. You remember that, and you go on with your life.		208
I'm a vagabond. I have a suitcase that is ready to go at a moment's notice. The thought of being in one place for a long time, or playing one character for a long time, is terrifying for me.		209
Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.		210
Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.		211
I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.		212
I do better on the first three takes; I won't be better at 20 takes.		213
I don't have to do the lead. If I dig a part, I'll do it.		214
I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.		215
I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.		216
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.	Anger	217
I'd always tried not to worry about the size of the role or the size of the film.		218
If I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me and treats me like everyone else, I'm not used to it.		219
L.A. kind of scares me.		220
Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.		221
The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie.		222
There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep.		223
There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.		224
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.		225
When it happened to us and it was all gone overnight, we said, 'We are in this together, we are healthy, our children are healthy and we can work'.		226
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.		301
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.		302
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.		303
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.		304
I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.	Romantic	305
When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other.		306
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.		307
I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.		308
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.		309
My family survived losing money to Bernie Madoff incredibly well compared to others.		310
I think of myself more as a workhorse actor. It will be hot and cold and up and down, but no one will kick me out of the business.		311
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.		312

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