Best 68 quotes of Kevin Bacon on MyQuotes

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

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.

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.

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.

Doing funny scary is something that is rarely good and rarely works, and it's also something that's incredibly hard to market.

Doing the press, it's part of my job, so I do it with a smile on my face, but I'm not comfortable in the hot seat.

Even the people that support Bush aren't happy with the way things are going in Iraq.

Everybody's got bills to pay. Sometimes you see people just go straight for the money, and that's disappointing.

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

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.

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

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.

I did all the dialect work, all my character work completely by myself.

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.

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.

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.

I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.

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

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 feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

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.

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 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.

If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.

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'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 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.

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

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 everybody reacts to entertainment with a different kind of visceral way, probably mostly based on their own personal experiences.

I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing with you and putting make-up on you and telling you when to wake up and when to go to sleep, holding your hand to cross the street. I can do it up to a certain point, and then I start to feel like a puppet.

I think of myself more as a workhorse actor. It will be hot and cold and up and down, but no one will kick me out of the business.

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.

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.

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 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.

It's easy to get laid when you're rich and famous. When you're broke and unknown, it takes skill.

I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.

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

I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public when they fail.

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.

L.A. kind of scares me.

Music is a soundtrack for your life. You hear some tune and you just get swept right back to that point in your life.

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.

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.