Top 153 Quotes & Sayings by Kevin Bacon
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
'The River Wild' was great, with Meryl Streep. That guy was really a bad dude who was ultimately sort of fundamentally impotent in a weird way. That was kind of interesting.
Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.
I don't have to do the lead. If I dig a part, I'll do it.
Certainly, network television in general relies a little bit too much on keeping people focused and emotional and scared and pushing the envelope by building wall-to-wall music.
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.
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 think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.
I did a year of 'Guiding Light', and I was going to be a movie actor or a stage actor, but not a TV actor. That just wasn't going to happen. And obviously, things changed so remarkably.
Fame is very much a double-edged sword.
I'd always tried not to worry about the size of the role or the size of the film.
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.
The most challenging work and the best work I've ever done was in a thing I did for PBS called 'Lemon Sky', a play by Lanford Wilson. I think it's the rawest, most complex work that I've had to do, and the thing I'm most proud of.
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.
Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.
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'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.
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 didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.
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.
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'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.
I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.
'Animal House' was my first movie, so I didn't have anything to compare it to. I was a sight gag more than anything else. So I can't say it was one of those things where your life changes. When the movie came out, I had to ask for the night off at the bar.
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 he's a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you're on your way into the grave.
I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.
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.
If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.
I do better on the first three takes; I won't be better at 20 takes.
A moustache is actually the one thing I really can grow. One of the bad parts about my facial hair situation is that I can't grow sideburns. I'm happy to still have my own hair on my head, but I can't grow any sideburns. If you ever see me with sideburns, they're not real.
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 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.
Clint Eastwood has always been a hero.
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.
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'.
I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.
There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.
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 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've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.
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.
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 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.
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.
I have a natural swagger.
If you take me out of it, I find 'six degrees' to be a beautiful concept that we should try to live by. It's about compassion and responsibility for everyone on the planet.
I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.
I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.
If I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me and treats me like everyone else, I'm not used to it.
Somebody with a billion followers can tweet, 'See my movie,' and it can still tank. Followers don't always translate into success because I think people are too savvy. When something takes off, it's because people are connecting to it - not because someone with a lot of followers says to care about it.
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.
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 types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous, and those who are liars.
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.
L.A. kind of scares me.
A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.
You can sit around and complain that Hollywood doesn't make any good movies. But you can generate your own material. So I read books. I come up with ideas. I was the producer on 'The Woodsman' to help get that off the ground. Sometimes that extends itself to directing.
Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.
With 'Transparent'. When Amazon put 'Transparent' up, along with 'Bosch' and a few other things, I watched them, and I thought it was an interesting exercise. I didn't comment on them, but I was like, 'Okay, this is kind of cool.'
I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.
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