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 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.
There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.
I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me.
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.
There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep.
I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.
Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.
With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is.
Having to be a nice guy is the toughest job in the world when you're not,
Career planning is an oxymoron, I find, but I am sort of trying to focus on doing something that's kind of mainstream.
She used to never put a hat on or put sunglasses on ... which is the first sign of an actor trying not to get recognized, ... Now she's starting to realize that she has to.
My kind of stuff, ... I like all kinds of ethnic foods.
We're retaining a part of the program, but canceling a part we consider to be underutilized.