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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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.

Kevin Bacon

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

Kevin Bacon

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

Kevin Bacon

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.

Kevin Bacon

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.

Kevin Bacon

Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.

Kevin Bacon

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.

Kevin Bacon

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.

Kevin Bacon

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

Kevin Bacon

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

Kevin Bacon

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

Kevin Bacon

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.

Kevin Bacon

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.

Kevin Bacon

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 th...

Kevin Bacon

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.

Kevin Bacon

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

Kevin Bacon

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

Kevin Bacon

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.

Kevin Bacon

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

Kevin Bacon

I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.

Kevin Bacon

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.

Kevin Bacon

Author Bio

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