Kevin Bacon Quotes
- A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.
- 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.
- 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.
- Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.
- Clint Eastwood has always been a hero.
- 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.
- Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.
- I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.
- I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.
- I do better on the first three takes; I won't be better at 20 takes.
- I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.
- I don't have to do the lead. If I dig a part, I'll do it.
- I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.
- I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.
- I have a natural swagger.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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'd always tried not to worry about the size of the role or the size of the film.
- I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.
- 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 always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.
- I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.
- 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.
- 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.
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- Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.
- 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.
- 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.
- There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep.
- There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.
- There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.
- There are two types of actors: those who say they want to be famous and those who are liars.
- 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.
- Having to be a nice guy is the toughest job in the world when you're not,
- There's enough of my rear end already,
- There's an addictive quality to fame and when your celebrity starts to wane, people get a real fear about that, ... And that's why I think sometimes you see people who will put themselves on whatever real weird reality shows or they'll find themselves just back in the paper by doing something horrible. I almost get the feeling that it's better than not being in the paper.
- Career planning is an oxymoron, I find, but I am sort of trying to focus on doing something that's kind of mainstream.
- Interestingly enough, (a decision of Atom's) is possibly part of the reason why we're unable to over-turn this rating because he chose to shoot it in one master,
- [Heather McDonald's thoughtful Broadway drama,] An Almost Holy Picture, ... I was at the theater one night and a woman said to her friend, 'This is a musical, isn't it?'
- We're famous for going to the hotel rooms and actually cleaning them up.
- A River Runs Through It.
- My kind of stuff, ... I like all kinds of ethnic foods.
- We have not yet been able to find a single cause for Gulf War Illness and I don't think that we're any closer to thinking that we will find a single cause.
- I'm not as enamored with actors as I am with musicians, especially like these guys, ... These are some of my heroes, and to be in the same room listening to them play or to what they have to say is fun for me.
- It's called acting,
- Part of the day would be spent thinking about the act, ... Eventually we brought the band in and had rehearsal space. It was a little frightening because I kept thinking, 'We need to get a choreographer, a music director, a comedy writer.' And Atom kept going back to wanting it to come from us. Ultimately, in a very short time, we had something going for the little bits that are seen of [the duo performing] in the film, just because we were forced to.
- That's cool and that's going to work.
- Veterans Day Polio Telethon.
- If something great comes along, that would be fine, but I've really been enjoying the time off and reconnecting with my family,
- I think even though from the beginning they were saying it's not because of the homosexuality, I think it is. But they can't say that,
- As an actor, I've always believed we have dark sides to ourselves,
- She used to never put a hat on or put sunglasses on ... which is the first sign of an actor trying not to get recognized, ... Now she's starting to realize that she has to.
- We knew there would be a certain amount of eye-rolling going on. It was inevitable. But the fact was we always played together. And we figured, look at the upside, people will come to the show because of the celebrity aspect, and then they'll hear great music and we've made a new fan. And that's just what happened.
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