Kevin Bacon Quotes

There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous and those who are liars.

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

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.

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.

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.

If I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me and treats me like everyone else, I'm not used to it.

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

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.

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

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.

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

I have a natural swagger.

I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.

I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.

Obviously, my perception of the world is one where humans are a threat to our survival.

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

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.

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

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)

I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.

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.

My family survived losing money to Bernie Madoff incredibly well compared to others.

Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.

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.

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.

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.

It's easy to get laid when you're rich and famous. When you're broke and unknown, it takes skill.

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.

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.

Doing funny scary is something that is rarely good and rarely works, and it's also something that's incredibly hard to market.

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

I don't create the movies I'm in. When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

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.

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.

If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like hes a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that youre on your way into the grave.

Clint Eastwood has always been a hero.

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

L.A. kind of scares me.

Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.

After so many years it's embarrassing to admit that I don't honestly know how much I want to be directed.

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.

There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep.

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.

I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.

I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.

A lot of times, the script is the thing they care about least.

You have to keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.

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.