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 had done 'Mystic River' and 'The Woodsman' and they were both internalized characters, characters who could hold an awful lot inside, and I thought it might be cool to go back and do something kind of external and showy, ... I also have rarely played an entertainer, and certainly have rarely played a celebrity, so to tap into those two parts of my own personality, I thought, seemed like it might be kind of interesting.
As an actor, I've always believed we have dark sides to ourselves,
A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.
Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.
I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.
I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.
The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.
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.
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.
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.