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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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Kevin Bacon
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 8
Actor
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Philadelphia
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Kevin Norwood Bacon
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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.
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A lot of people believe in reading reviews. If I get too focused on some detail of what they've said about me, I'm going to end up shooting myself in the foot.
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Clint Eastwood has always been a hero.
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If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.
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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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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 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.
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The hardest gig there is in entertainment is to be the lead in an hour show, especially if it's a show that's blood and guts and fighting. It's rough. I love to work, but to do something different is really exciting.
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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.
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You have to have something in your life that's more important than the work. People don't really like to admit that. I think that you have to find something else. I don't know what it is. Is it yoga or God or politics? For me it's just family.
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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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You have to keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.
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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 think there is a puritanical wind that is blowing. I have never seen such a lack of separation between church and state in America, I don’t believe in God, but if I did I would say that sex is a Godgiven right. Otherwise it’s the end of our species.
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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'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.
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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.
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When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.
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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.
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Doing the press, it's part of my job, so I do it with a smile on my face, but I'm not comfortable in the hot seat.
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