Kevin Bacon Quotes - Page 2

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.

Obviously, my perception of the world is one where humans are a threat to our survival.

There's something therapeutic about nudity ... Take away the Gucci or Levi's and we're all the same.

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.

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.

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

I do better on the first three takes; I won't be better at 20 takes.

There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep.

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

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'm very comfortable being married to an extremely strong, opinionated, and driven woman. But I also sit at the head of the table. I have both of those sides to me.

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 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 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.

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.

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

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 the picture the opportunity to make more money.

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

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

My kids don't watch my movies. What I want to do is go home and hug my kids, talk to them and engage with them.

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.

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

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.

My family survived losing money to Bernie Madoff incredibly well compared to others.