Kevin Bacon
Kevin Bacon
Kevin Norwood Bacon is an American actor and musician whose films include musical-drama film Footloose, the controversial historical conspiracy legal thriller JFK, the legal drama A Few Good Men, the historical docudrama Apollo 13, and the mystery drama Mystic River. Also on television, he starred in the Fox series The Following from 2013 to 2015. Bacon has won a Golden Globe Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. The Guardian named him...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth8 July 1958
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
I have a natural swagger.
There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous and those who are liars.
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.
Music is a soundtrack for your life. You hear some tune and you just get swept right back to that point in your life.
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.
There's something therapeutic about nudity ... Take away the Gucci or Levi's and we're all the same.
There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.
Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.
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.
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.
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.
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.
Things could be worse. You remember that, and you go on with your life.
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.