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You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

Quote by Victoria Abril about age, olderness, real estate, contentment

An audience would come having been fed something about how to react, and where you'd be getting tons of laughs at the preview, the next night there'd be dead silence because they'd been told that the piece isn't funny.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about silence, night, contentment

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.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about talent, contentment

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.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about actors, contentment

Everybody's got bills to pay. Sometimes you see people just go straight for the money, and that's disappointing.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about bills, money, people, contentment

I always watch rushes. They give me a sense of whether I'm going in the right direction. You work hard and hopefully get encouragement from what you see.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about encouragement, common sense, sense, rightness, work, contentment

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

Quote by Kevin Bacon about actors, work, contentment

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

Quote by Kevin Bacon about celebrity, fight, voice, artists, contentment

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.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about love, contentment

I lost a lot of weight. I'm thin as it is, but I was probably 50 pounds lighter; and if you're that skinny, your head starts acting sort of funny.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about heads, contentment

I read the script, I go away. If I have questions, I'll ask, but then I do my work. If you don't have it in 10 takes, you're not going to have it.

Quote by Kenneth Peacock Tynan about work, contentment

I used to think when I was a kid that the director was someone who came in and made you better and brought out this amazing performance.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about contentment

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

Quote by Kathy Acker about nation, contentment, people

If you can be associated with films that make money, it creates more opportunities to do what you want to do, so it definitely helps

Quote by Kevin Bacon about chance, money, contentment

If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about actors, contentment

I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.

Quote by Kathy Acker about language, being, contentment

People asked me after JFK what I believed, and I didn't care. You presume that people are on the side of their films' beliefs, but that's just not always the case.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about nation, people, contentment

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.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about affair, contentment, day, people

The independents should be a place where you can challenge the studios in terms of what they're doing.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about contentment

The studios, directors, casting directors, they pretty much want you to be the one you were in your last one.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about contentment