Quotes by Kevin Bacon

About Kevin Bacon:

Kevin Norwood Bacon is an American actor and musician whose films include musical-drama film Footloose (1984), the controversial historical conspiracy legal thriller JFK (1991), the legal drama A Few Good Men (1992), the historical docudrama Apollo 13 (1995) and the mystery drama Mystic River (2003). He starred on the Fox television series The Following until its cancellation on May 8th, 2015. Bacon has won a Golden Globe Award, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. He was named by The Guardian as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.
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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.

Kevin Bacon

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 ...

Kevin Bacon

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.

Kevin Bacon

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 Bacon

Clint Eastwood has always been a hero.

Kevin Bacon

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

Kevin Bacon

I have a natural swagger.

Kevin Bacon

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.

Kevin Bacon

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.

Kevin Bacon

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.

Kevin Bacon

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

Kevin Bacon

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

Kevin Bacon

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

Kevin Bacon

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

Kevin Bacon

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

Kevin Bacon

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

Kevin Bacon

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

Kevin Bacon

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.

Kevin Bacon

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

Kevin Bacon

L.A. kind of scares me.

Kevin Bacon

Author Bio

  • NameKevin Bacon
  • DescriptionAmerican actor
  • BornJuly 8, 1958
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Film Actor; Musician; Voice Actor