Kevin Bacon Quotes

You can sit around and complain that Hollywood doesn't make any good movies. But you can generate your own material. So I read books. I come up with ideas. I was the producer on 'The Woodsman' to help get that off the ground. Sometimes that extends itself to directing.

Kevin Bacon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 8, 1958

Topics

GoodIdeasHelpYouSometimesOwn

I think I just went into a system that was willing to utilize me and gave me opportunities and I felt fortunate to be able to go to Oakland and put the silver and black on. I wanted to prove to everybody that I could still play.

Jerry Rice

MeOpportunitiesBlackThinkPlay

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

MasteryEgotismOftenPasses

I love many places to which I have no connection, but identifying an ancestor, or someone I think is an ancestor, has taken me to places I'd never have gone to otherwise.

Jeremy Hardy

LoveMeThinkSomeoneConnection

I think it's human nature that if we don't have our own family, we will create a family, because it's human nature, and it's that element of trust and dependency and love and all of those sort of things.

John Hillcoat

FamilyNatureLoveTrustThinkWill

I think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that you have to go find them. You have to make a conscious choice to go to the swamp or the desert or the abandoned summer camp.

Max Brooks

DesertThinkYouRulesFindChoice

In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom.

Andy Summers

FreedomPoliceYouBackPlayNow

Literature allows us to be open, to listen, and to be curious.

Tracy K. Smith

CuriousLiteratureListenOpenUs

I think it's important to relax in general. I don't try to save up my relaxing for one month period of the year; it's kind of a daily practice that I've tried to remain aware of.

Toni Collette

DailyPracticeRelaxThinkYearTry

When you first start out with something new, you're always a little uptight.

Don Rickles

StartYouNewFirstAlwaysOut

A lot of actors seem to dislike typecasting these days. The funny thing is, that's a fairly recent development. It used to be that actors wanted to be typecast so audiences could remember them and identify with them.

Dick Van Dyke

FunnyRememberDevelopmentDislike

Being a father can 'unreason' your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights. It's sad that children's open-eyed wonder and sense of play begin to fade as they approach adolescence. One grand function of fathering is to keep the fading to a minimum.

Clyde Edgerton

FatherSadChildrenFunCreatePlay

Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things.

Art Garfunkel

TruthKnowTrueSpiritMatterStuff

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