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
There's something therapeutic about nudity ... Take away the Gucci or Levi's and we're all the same.
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.
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.
After so many years it's embarrassing to admit that I don't honestly know how much I want to be directed.
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.
I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.
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.
There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.
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.
If I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me and treats me like everyone else, I'm not used to it.
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.
I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.
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.