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 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.
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 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've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.
I felt as if I was the brunt of some massive joke at my expense: Can you believe this loser can be connected to Marlon Brando and Katharine Hepburn? But through the years I have learned to tolerate and sometimes embrace the idea. People have asked me if I consider it an honour. Well, all it indicates is that I've been in a lot of movies with a lot of people. And besides that there are plenty of other actors that would work.
L.A. kind of scares me.
I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.
I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.
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.
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.
Things could be worse. You remember that, and you go on with your life.
I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public when they fail.
I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.
SixDegrees.org is about using the idea that we are all connected to accomplish something good. It is my hope that Six Degrees will soon be something more than a game or a gimmick. It will also be a force for good, by bringing a social conscience to social networking.