Kevin Bacon Quotes

• There’s the most resistance to an actor singing. It’s like I’m being disloyal to my industry.

  Kevin Bacon

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

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• 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’.

  Kevin Bacon

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

  Kevin Bacon

• 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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• 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.

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• Before Footloose, the things I’d done weren’t cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.

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• Clint Eastwood has always been a hero.

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• 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.

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• Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He’s such a great actor, he’s off the hook. I love him.

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• I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.

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

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

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

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• I don’t want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man’s game.

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• I do better on the first three takes; I won’t be better at 20 takes.

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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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• 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.

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• I have a natural swagger.

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• 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.

  Kevin Bacon

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Birth:	8th July, 1958
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

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