Top 55 Kevin Bacon Quotes

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.

The greats are ‘The Shining’, ‘Rosemary’s Baby’, ‘Don’t Look Now’, ‘The Exorcist’ – those movies were not really slashers: they were about psychological terror and had very deep emotional backdrops. If we do our best, ‘6 Miranda Drive’ can be that kind of a movie.

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

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.

Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.

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.

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.

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.

Fame is very much a double-edged sword.

I wasn’t going off to New York to be more famous than my father, but in retrospect, that certainly was driving me. He was famous in Philadelphia, but it was also really important to him to be famous. And to a certain extent, I got some of that, even though there were parts of it that horrified me.

I don’t have any plans of slowing down. I love being an actor.

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

I wanted to do something heroic if I was going to be on TV. And the first thing that appeals to me once I have decided I don’t want to be the bad guy is to find things that are not black and white.

I always have a suitcase ready to go. My wife and I are both very much like this. We’re both vagabonds, and we have been since the time we were married.

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

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

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.

Great writing makes great television.

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.

Fame is something that is tough when it comes. It’s a weird thing to take on in real life. I was a little bit afraid and, as a result, kind of turned my back on it. You should embrace it because it’s going to be a part of who you are, and it’s going to be a part of what this business is about.

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.

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.

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 always have to make it as clear as I possibly can that fame is 99.9 percent good.

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

I’m new to this TV thing, at least as an actor. It’s a challenge. The thing I have to adjust to is the changing directors every week. That’s new for me. I tend to establish with a director – and then two days later, he’s gone.

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

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

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

‘Kung Fury!’ I mean, Jesus, that thing is amazing.

From an acting standpoint, when I was a kid, I thought I knew everything there was to know. As the years go by, this craft becomes more intensive as I get older. You realize how much more there is to know and to learn, and how much better you can get, if you really work at it.

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

To me, the struggle is to try to make a less-well-written or less-well-rounded character and find who they are. If you really get it, and it’s all on the page, then it’s really just gonna pop out at you.

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.

I still want to make Kyra proud of the person I am – father, husband, actor, musician.

One of the top comments I get from people is, ‘Oh my God, you’re like a regular person!’ That’s kind of a bizarre thing to live with. I know a lot of famous people, and their lives may not be regular, but they are regular people.

I like playing complex, interesting characters. Sometimes I don’t think there’s much of a strong line between right and wrong for a character. Every character is somewhere on a moral spectrum.

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

I have fond memories of Chris Penn, who’s sadly not with us. He always made me laugh – it was great to be with him.

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

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.

Kevin’s mind goes to extremely interesting places. Every time we get a script, I go, ‘Oh my God, I really didn’t see that coming’.

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.

The way I analyze a script, I don’t look at how many days I have off. I see how far they’re going to push me. That’s just the way I am.

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

We are being choked to death by the amount of plastic that we throw away. It’s killing our oceans. It’s entering into our bodies in the fish we eat.

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

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

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.

There is this idea that your social media platform is the secret to success, but no one has quite proven that to be true, if you ask me.

Whether it’s my age or my misspent youth, sometimes I forget whether I’ve worked with somebody or not.

‘Gogglebox’ is a show where you watch people watch television.

There is a lesson there about greed and it is a lesson I am willing to learn as well. Has it made me a distrustful person? I don’t think so. But we probably look a bit more carefully at our financial situation now.

‘X-Men: First Class’ was fun.