Kevin Bacon
I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.
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'd always tried not to worry about the size of the role or the size of the film.
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.
L.A. kind of scares me.
Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.
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.
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 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'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.
Things could be worse. You remember that, and you go on with your life.
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.
When it happened to us and it was all gone overnight, we said, 'We are in this together, we are healthy, our children are healthy and we can work'.
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.
A good director creates an environment which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.Collection: Encouragement
The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.Collection: Justice
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.Collection: Failure
There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous and those who are liars.Collection: Liars
You have to keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.Collection: Marriage
Music is a soundtrack for your life. You hear some tune and you just get swept right back to that point in your life.Collection: Tunes
Everybody's got bills to pay. Sometimes you see people just go straight for the money, and that's disappointing.Collection: People
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.Collection: Believe
There's something therapeutic about nudity. Clothing is one of the external things about a character. Take away the Gucci or Levi's and we're all the same. But not when the nanny is around. But I will with my wife and kids.Collection: Character
You have to have something in your life that's more important than the work. People don't really like to admit that. I think that you have to find something else. I don't know what it is. Is it yoga or God or politics? For me it's just family.Collection: Yoga
It's easy to get laid when you're rich and famous. When you're broke and unknown, it takes skill.Collection: Skills
They took 3-D digital photographs of my entire body. I had to pose stark naked, assuming a kind of Spider-Man position. After a minute, one of the technicians pointed to my genitals and said, Um, we're not getting enough data there ... It wasn't what you think. It turns out that the fancy digital camera doesn't pick up dark areas too well, and they were having trouble because of the hair down there. I actually had to spray on this highlighter stuff. (On having digital photos taken for the invisible man role in the film Hollow Man)Collection: Taken
A lot of people believe in reading reviews. If I get too focused on some detail of what they've said about me, I'm going to end up shooting myself in the foot.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Dad
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.Collection: Brother
SixDegrees.org is about using the idea that we are all connected to accomplish something good. It is my hope that Six Degrees will soon be something more than a game or a gimmick. It will also be a force for good, by bringing a social conscience to social networking.Collection: Games
I don't read reviews. I haven't read them for probably 30 years. I can't. When they're bad, they're really rough, and when they're good, they're not good enough. You can always find something to stress over.Collection: Stress
Obviously, my perception of the world is one where humans are a threat to our survival.Collection: Perception
I think there is a puritanical wind that is blowing. I have never seen such a lack of separation between church and state in America, I don’t believe in God, but if I did I would say that sex is a Godgiven right. Otherwise it’s the end of our species.Collection: Sex
There's something therapeutic about nudity ... Take away the Gucci or Levi's and we're all the same.Collection: Levi's
I always watch rushes. They give me a sense of whether I'm going in the right direction. You work hard and hopefully get encouragement from what you see.Collection: Encouragement
I don't really worry so much about image. I try to just live my own life, my personal life, to my own sense of morality. In terms of the kinds of characters that I play, well, they could be anything.Collection: Character
I think everybody reacts to entertainment with a different kind of visceral way, probably mostly based on their own personal experiences.Collection: Thinking
I felt as if I was the brunt of some massive joke at my expense: Can you believe this loser can be connected to Marlon Brando and Katharine Hepburn? But through the years I have learned to tolerate and sometimes embrace the idea. People have asked me if I consider it an honour. Well, all it indicates is that I've been in a lot of movies with a lot of people. And besides that there are plenty of other actors that would work.Collection: Believe
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 hes a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that youre on your way into the grave.Collection: Giving Up
I don't create the movies I'm in. When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.Collection: Song
A lot of times, the script is the thing they care about least.Collection: Care
The hardest gig there is in entertainment is to be the lead in an hour show, especially if it's a show that's blood and guts and fighting. It's rough. I love to work, but to do something different is really exciting.Collection: Fighting
I did all the dialect work, all my character work completely by myself.Collection: Character