Kevin Bacon Quotes
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Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.
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If you take me out of it, I find 'six degrees' to be a beautiful concept that we should try to live by. It's about compassion and responsibility for everyone on the planet.
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I started working in the mid-to-late Seventies, when television was not what it is now.
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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.
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In my movie work, if I do one guy, the next guy I do, I want to do something kind of different. Even in terms of genre - it's really great to mix it up a little.
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I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.
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I always have a suitcase ready to go. My wife and I are both very much like this. We're both vagabonds, and we have been since the time we were married.
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A moustache is actually the one thing I really can grow. One of the bad parts about my facial hair situation is that I can't grow sideburns. I'm happy to still have my own hair on my head, but I can't grow any sideburns. If you ever see me with sideburns, they're not real.
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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.
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There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.
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I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.
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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.
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I like playing complex, interesting characters. Sometimes I don't think there's much of a strong line between right and wrong for a character. Every character is somewhere on a moral spectrum.
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Show me an actor who doesn't want to be famous, and I'll show you a liar. Later, you realise that there's more to it than just the acquisition of fame, and money and girls. But that is what drives them and was what drove me, initially.
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There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.
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When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other.
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There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep.
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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.
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There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous, and those who are liars.
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I'd always tried not to worry about the size of the role or the size of the film.
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If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.
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Whether it's my age or my misspent youth, sometimes I forget whether I've worked with somebody or not.
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You can sit around and complain that Hollywood doesn't make any good movies. But you can generate your own material. So I read books. I come up with ideas. I was the producer on 'The Woodsman' to help get that off the ground. Sometimes that extends itself to directing.
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'X-Men: First Class' was fun.