Kevin Bacon Quotes

With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is.

I don't have to do the lead. If I dig a part, I'll do it.

I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.

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.

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.

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.

The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.

Here's the thing - I mean, I don't act for statues. I really don't. The great thing about winning an award is that it creates opportunities.

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.

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.

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.

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

My brother is the lifelong musician, he made the choice to do that when we were very, very young kids. I remember him playing in bands and listening to the music he was writing in the house - he's nine years older than me.

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.

A lot of people believe in reading reviews. If I get too focused on some detail of what they've said about me, I'm going to end up shooting myself in the foot.

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.

There are two things that create opportunities. One is being involved with something that makes money, and the other is winning awards. And the reason that winning the awards creates the opportunities is because it gives the people who are selling the picture the opportunity to make more money.

I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.

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.

I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

I think everybody reacts to entertainment with a different kind of visceral way, probably mostly based on their own personal experiences.

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

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.

Music is a soundtrack for your life. You hear some tune and you just get swept right back to that point in your life.

It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous.

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

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.

I did all the dialect work, all my character work completely by myself.

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.

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

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.

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.

Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.

I don't really worry so much about image. I try to just live my own life, my personal life, to my own sense of morality. In terms of the kinds of characters that I play, well, they could be anything.

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.

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.

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.

Even the people that support Bush aren't happy with the way things are going in Iraq.