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
The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie.
There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.
I did all the dialect work, all my character work completely by myself.
I think of myself more as a workhorse actor. It will be hot and cold and up and down, but no one will kick me out of the business.
It's easy to get laid when you're rich and famous. When you're broke and unknown, it takes skill.
My family survived losing money to Bernie Madoff incredibly well compared to others.
When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.
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.
After so many years it's embarrassing to admit that I don't honestly know how much I want to be directed.
A lot of times, the script is the thing they care about least.
Doing the press, it's part of my job, so I do it with a smile on my face, but I'm not comfortable in the hot seat.
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.
There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep.
There's something therapeutic about nudity ... Take away the Gucci or Levi's and we're all the same.