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The Great Gatsby
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Kevin Bacon Quotes

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

– Kevin Bacon

‘Gogglebox’ is a show where you watch people watch television.

– Kevin Bacon

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

– Kevin Bacon

There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.

– Kevin Bacon

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.

– Kevin Bacon

When it comes to music, it’s my clothes, it’s my guitar, it’s my voice, it’s my song.

– Kevin Bacon

I’d always tried not to worry about the size of the role or the size of the film.

– Kevin Bacon

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.

– Kevin Bacon

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.

– Kevin Bacon

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.

– Kevin Bacon

Fame is very much a double-edged sword.

– Kevin Bacon

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

– Kevin Bacon

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

– Kevin Bacon

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.

– Kevin Bacon

I did a year of ‘Guiding Light’, and I was going to be a movie actor or a stage actor, but not a TV actor. That just wasn’t going to happen. And obviously, things changed so remarkably.

– Kevin Bacon

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

– Kevin Bacon

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.

– Kevin Bacon

Whether it’s my age or my misspent youth, sometimes I forget whether I’ve worked with somebody or not.

– Kevin Bacon

I started working in the mid-to-late Seventies, when television was not what it is now.

– Kevin Bacon

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.

– Kevin Bacon

For my wife and I, for so many years, a lot of our identity was based on being Hollywood haters. We were like, ‘We’re east-coast. We’re New Yorkers. This is just a place that we have to come to, but not by choice.’

– Kevin Bacon

‘Kung Fury!’ I mean, Jesus, that thing is amazing.

– Kevin Bacon

Great writing makes great television.

– Kevin Bacon

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.’

– Kevin Bacon

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.

– Kevin Bacon

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.

– Kevin Bacon

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.

– Kevin Bacon

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.

– Kevin Bacon

If you look at my movie career, I do switch it up a lot. I’m always looking for a lot of different parts. It’s been a while since I’ve been in a situation that was romantic.

– Kevin Bacon

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.

– Kevin Bacon

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