Kevin Bacon Quotes

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

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

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

I have a natural swagger.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Clint Eastwood has always been a hero.

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

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

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

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

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.

L.A. kind of scares 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.

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

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

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.

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