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.

-Kevin Bacon

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When I Go Home, I Try To Raise My Children With Honesty And Integrity And Teach Them To Take Care Of The World And Of Each Other.

Children

Honesty

Integrity

Even The People That Support Bush Aren't Happy With The Way Things Are Going In Iraq.

Iraq

People

Support

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.

Advice

Idiot

Talent

Doing Funny Scary Is Something That Is Rarely Good And Rarely Works, And It's Also Something That's Incredibly Hard To Market.

Scary

Hard

When It Comes To Music, It's My Clothes, It's My Guitar, It's My Voice, It's My Song.

Song

Guitar

Voice

I Don't Have To Do The Lead. If I Dig A Part, I'll Do It.

Ifs

I Didn't Get Into This So I Could Talk About My Work, My Movies. You Become An Actor To Act.

Actors

There's The Most Resistance To An Actor Singing. It's Like I'm Being Disloyal To My Industry.

Singing

Actors

Resistance

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.

People

Guy

Risk

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.

Stories

Want

There Are Two Types Of Actors: Those Who Say They Don't Want To Be Famous And Those Who Are Liars.

Liars

Two

Actors

The Greatest Justice In Life Is That Your Vision And Looks Tend To Go Simultaneously.

Justice

Vision

Looks

A Lot Of Times, The Script Is The Thing They Care About Least.

Care

Scripts

Sixdegrees.org Is About Using The Idea That We Are All Connected To Accomplish Something Good. It Is My Hope That Six Degrees Will Soon Be Something More Than A Game Or A Gimmick. It Will Also Be A Force For Good, By Bringing A Social Conscience To Social Networking.

Games

Ideas

Six

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.

Fighting

Blood

Gigs

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.

Character

Long

Vagabonds

I'm Always Happier And A Better Actor When I Can Really Lose Myself In A Character And Become Somebody Else.

Character

Actors

I Can

I've Made Three Studio Albums And One Live One With My Brother. It's Melodic Singer-songwriter Acoustic-rock Music.

Brother

Rocks

Albums

There Are Very Few Things That Are Purely Conceptual Without Any Hard Content.

Hard

They Took 3-d Digital Photographs Of My Entire Body. I Had To Pose Stark Naked, Assuming A Kind Of Spider-man Position. After A Minute, One Of The Technicians Pointed To My Genitals And Said, Um, We're Not Getting Enough Data There ... It Wasn't What You Think. It Turns Out That The Fancy Digital Camera Doesn't Pick Up Dark Areas Too Well, And They Were Having Trouble Because Of The Hair Down There. I Actually Had To Spray On This Highlighter Stuff. (on Having Digital Photos Taken For The Invisible Man Role In The Film Hollow Man)

Taken

Dark

Thinking

If I'm In A Situation Where Someone Doesn't Recognize Me And Treats Me Like Everyone Else, I'm Not Used To It.

Used

Treats

Situation

A Good Director Creates An Environment Which Gives The Actor The Encouragement To Fly.

Encouragement

Giving

Acting

Gary Oldman Is Impossible To Steal A Movie From. He's Such A Great Actor, He's Off The Hook. I Love Him.

I Love Him

Hook

Actors

After So Many Years It's Embarrassing To Admit That I Don't Honestly Know How Much I Want To Be Directed.

Years

Want

Embarrassing

I Don't Read Reviews. I Haven't Read Them For Probably 30 Years. I Can't. When They're Bad, They're Really Rough, And When They're Good, They're Not Good Enough. You Can Always Find Something To Stress Over.

Stress

Years

Not Good Enough

Part Of Being A Man Is Learning To Take Responsibility For Your Successes, And For Your Failures. You Can't Go Blaming Others, Or Being Jealous. Seeing Somebody Else's Success As Your Failure Is A Cancerous Way To Live.

Failure

Jealous

Responsibility

Obviously, My Perception Of The World Is One Where Humans Are A Threat To Our Survival.

Perception

Survival

World

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.

Weekend

People

Acting

Everybody's Got Bills To Pay. Sometimes You See People Just Go Straight For The Money, And That's Disappointing.

People

Pay

Bills

My Family Survived Losing Money To Bernie Madoff Incredibly Well Compared To Others.

I Have A Natural Swagger.

Swag

Swagger

Natural

I'd Love To Be A Pop Idol. Of Course, My Groupies Are Now Between 40 And 50.

Idols

Pops

Groupie

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.

Jobs

Hot

Faces

There's Something Therapeutic About Nudity. Clothing Is One Of The External Things About A Character. Take Away The Gucci Or Levi's And We're All The Same. But Not When The Nanny Is Around. But I Will With My Wife And Kids.

Character

Kids

Wife

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.

Men

Average

Talking

I Really Believe That All Of Us Have A Lot Of Darkness In Our Souls. Anger, Rage, Fear, Sadness. I Don't Think That's Only Reserved For People Who Have Horrible Upbringings.

Believe

Sadness

Thinking

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.

Business

Next Day

People

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.

Not Good Enough

Criticism

Important

I'm Obsessed With Zombies. I Like Watching Zombie Movies And I Read Zombie Books.

Movie

Book

Zombie

I Did All The Dialect Work, All My Character Work Completely By Myself.

Character

Dialect

I Would Say Invisibility Would Be Sort Of A Fun Power To Have Just To See What It Was Like To Move Through The World And Not Be Looked At.

Fun

Moving

Would Be

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.

Sex

Believe

Thinking

You Have To Keep The Fights Clean And The Sex Dirty.

Marriage

Sex

Dirty

I Don't Read My Own Reviews And I Haven't For Probably 15 Years. I Read Other People's Reviews, Though.

Years

People

Reviews

I've Been In Silly Movies And Romantic Movies And Historic Movies.

Silly

Historic

Silly Movie

I Always Wanted, And Still Aspire, To Be Something More Than Just One Thing, Just One Performance.

Wanted

Performances

Stills

I Think One Of The Most Pervasive Evils In This World Is Greed And Acquiring Money For Money's Sake. Once You Have Six Houses And A Plane, It's Just About A Number. It's Never Been Anything I Understood.

Money

Thinking

Numbers

I Do Struggle With How Much And In Which Way, As An Artist Or Celebrity, That You Voice Your Political Views.

Struggle

Artist

Views

Before Footloose, The Things I'd Done Weren't Cute. In Diner I Was An Alcoholic.

Cute

Done

Diners

I Do Better On The First Three Takes; I Won't Be Better At 20 Takes.

Three

Firsts

It's Easy To Get Laid When You're Rich And Famous. When You're Broke And Unknown, It Takes Skill.

Skills

Rich

Easy

Things Could Be Worse. You Remember That, And You Go On With Your Life.

Goes On

Remember

I Think We All Have A Lot Of Darkness In Our Bellies. As An Actor, The Challenge Of Tapping Into That, Reaching Down Into That Sadness Or Anger, Is Very Therapeutic.

Happiness

Anger

Sadness

I Don't Want To Stop Acting, But Acting In Some Ways Is A Young Man's Game.

Men

Games

Acting

I Want To See The Numbers That Prove That Show-business Marriages Are Any Less Successful Than Other Marriages. It's Just Very Public When They Fail.

Successful

Numbers

Want

I Felt As If I Was The Brunt Of Some Massive Joke At My Expense: Can You Believe This Loser Can Be Connected To Marlon Brando And Katharine Hepburn? But Through The Years I Have Learned To Tolerate And Sometimes Embrace The Idea. People Have Asked Me If I Consider It An Honour. Well, All It Indicates Is That I've Been In A Lot Of Movies With A Lot Of People. And Besides That There Are Plenty Of Other Actors That Would Work.

Believe

Years

Ideas

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.

Dad

Philadelphia

Guy

I'd Really Like To Get The Girl, Shoot The Gun, Drive The Car, Have Fun. I Even Have These Kind Of Action Dreams, Where I'm The Action Guy.

Girl

Dream

Fun

Clint Eastwood Has Always Been A Hero.

Hero

Music Is A Soundtrack For Your Life. You Hear Some Tune And You Just Get Swept Right Back To That Point In Your Life.

Tunes

Soundtracks

Music Is

I'll Be Honest With You. My Kids Don't Watch My Movies And Never Have. I Can Maybe Name A Film One Hand That They've Seen, Actually, All The Way Through.

Kids

Hands

Names

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.

Sleep

Men

Thinking

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.

Jobs

Men

Compassion

I'd Always Tried Not To Worry About The Size Of The Role Or The Size Of The Film.

Worry

Size

Roles

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.

Break Up

New York

Make Or Break

Ninety-five Percent Of Celebrity Is Good.

Ninety

Five

Percent

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.

Yoga

Thinking

People

My Kids Don't Watch My Movies. What I Want To Do Is Go Home And Hug My Kids, Talk To Them And Engage With Them.

Kids

Home

Hug

Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

Quotes, or quotations, are powerful tools in communication, encapsulating ideas, emotions, and wisdom in concise expressions. They serve various purposes across different contexts, from academic writing to everyday conversation.

1. Defining Quotes

A quote is a repetition of someone else's statement or thoughts. It can be a direct replication of words spoken or written by another individual, often used to support arguments, provide evidence, or convey profound insights.

2. The Importance of Quotes

2.1. Enhancing Credibility

Incorporating quotes from authoritative sources can bolster the credibility of your work. By referencing experts or primary sources, you demonstrate thorough research and a solid foundation for your arguments.

2.2. Providing Evidence

Quotes serve as concrete evidence to support claims. In academic and professional writing, they validate points made, offering readers a basis to trust the information presented.

2.3. Conveying Emotions and Perspectives

Quotes can encapsulate emotions and perspectives succinctly. They allow writers to express complex feelings or viewpoints through the words of others, often more eloquently than paraphrasing.

3. Types of Quotes

3.1. Direct Quotes

Direct quotes involve copying the exact words from a source, enclosed in quotation marks. They are used when the original wording is significant or particularly well-expressed.

3.2. Indirect Quotes (Paraphrasing)

Indirect quotes restate the original message in your own words. While not enclosed in quotation marks, they still require proper attribution to the original source.

3.3. Block Quotes

Block quotes are lengthy direct quotations, formatted as a separate block of text. They are typically used for quotes exceeding a certain length, varying by citation style. For instance, in APA style, quotes longer than 40 words are formatted as block quotes.

4. Proper Usage of Quotes

4.1. Contextual Relevance

Ensure that the quote you choose is relevant to the topic and adds value to your content. Avoid inserting quotes solely for decorative purposes.

4.2. Integration into Your Writing

Seamlessly integrate quotes into your writing. Introduce them appropriately and follow up with analysis or commentary to connect them to your main points.

4.3. Attribution and Citation

Always attribute quotes to their original authors and provide proper citations according to the required style guide (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).

5. Common Mistakes to Avoid

5.1. Overusing Quotes

Relying too heavily on quotes can overshadow your voice. Use them sparingly to support your arguments, not replace them.

5.2. Lack of Analysis

Presenting a quote without analysis or explanation can leave readers questioning its relevance. Always follow up with your interpretation or discussion.

5.3. Misquoting or Taking Out of Context

Ensure that quotes are accurate and not taken out of context, as this can mislead readers and undermine your credibility.

6. Quotes in Different Contexts

6.1. Academic Writing

In academic writing, quotes are used to support arguments, provide evidence, and engage with existing literature. Proper citation is crucial to avoid plagiarism.

6.2. Journalism

Journalists use quotes to provide firsthand accounts, add authenticity, and present multiple perspectives within a story.

6.3. Literature and Creative Writing

In literature, quotes can be used to convey character voices, themes, and stylistic elements. They enrich narratives and provide depth to storytelling.

7. Punctuation and Formatting

Understanding the correct punctuation and formatting of quotes is essential:

Quotation Marks: Always enclose direct quotes within quotation marks.

Punctuation Placement: In American English, periods and commas are placed inside quotation marks, while colons and semicolons are placed outside.

Block Quotes: For longer quotes, format them as block quotes without quotation marks, and indent the entire block.

8. Ethical Considerations

Ethical use of quotes involves accurate representation, proper attribution, and respect for intellectual property. Misuse can lead to plagiarism, which carries serious academic and professional consequences.

9. Tools for Managing Quotes

Utilize tools like citation generators and plagiarism checkers to manage quotes effectively. These tools help ensure proper formatting and originality in your writing.

Conclusion

Quotes are invaluable in enriching content, providing evidence, and conveying complex ideas succinctly. When used appropriately, they enhance the quality and credibility of your writing. Always ensure relevance, proper integration, and ethical usage to maximize their impact.

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