Kevin Bacon Quotes

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Kevin Bacon

Profession : Actor

Birth : July 8, 1958

I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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I have fond memories of Chris Penn, who's sadly not with us. He always made me laugh - it was great to be with him.

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Fame is very much a double-edged sword.

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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.

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

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There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous, and those who are liars.

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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.

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From the time I signed on to 'The Following,' things have already vastly changed in the entertainment world in general. It's an adjustment for me.

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There's this American dream to put enough away that you can golf and build a birdhouse or just be in a Barcalounger watching football all day. I'll never be that guy. And I'm not really sure the people who have that are all that happy. Our desires as a man are to work, plow ahead, and overcome conflict.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.

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A moustache is actually the one thing I really can grow. One of the bad parts about my facial hair situation is that I can't grow sideburns. I'm happy to still have my own hair on my head, but I can't grow any sideburns. If you ever see me with sideburns, they're not real.

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

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