Quotes By Kevin Bacon

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

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

I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.

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

Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.

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.

There is a lesson there about greed and it is a lesson I am willing to learn as well. Has it made me a distrustful person? I don't think so. But we probably look a bit more carefully at our financial situation now.

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.

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.

There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.

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.

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.