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Kevin Bacon

(1958) Actor United States

156 quotes in 639 categories

Kevin Bacon says music works like a soundtrack that can pull you back to a specific moment in your life. He jokes that TV often tries to keep viewers scared and emotional, and that the entertainment business hasn’t really changed since the 1970s. He also shares a memory of a friend who made him laugh, showing how personal stories can surface in interviews.

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Kevin Bacon is an actor from the United States, best known for E-Government.

Quick Facts About Kevin Bacon

Born: July 8, 1958
Nationality: United States
Profession: Actor
Notable works: E-Government
Spouse: Kyra Sedgwick

About Kevin Bacon

Kevin Bacon is an American actor who has played many leading‑man roles and has earned a Golden Globe Award along with two other acting honors.

Awards & Honors

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Quotes by Kevin Bacon

Great writing makes great television.

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Fame is very much a double-edged sword.

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Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.

Celebrity

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Clint Eastwood has always been a hero.

Hero

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I have a natural swagger.

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'X-Men: First Class' was fun.

Class

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L.A. kind of scares me.

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My family survived losing money to Bernie Madoff incredibly well compared to others.

Family

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'Gogglebox' is a show where you watch people watch television.

People

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If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.

Actor

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I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.

Acting

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You have to keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.

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I joke that my epitaph will be, 'No Oscars, but at least he had a game named after him.'

Epitaph

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Even the people that support Bush aren't happy with the way things are going in Iraq.

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Things could be worse. You remember that, and you go on with your life.

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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.

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My kids don't watch my movies. What I want to do is go home and hug my kids, talk to them and…

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Music is a soundtrack for your life. You hear some tune and you just get swept right back to that point in…

Life

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I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public…

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I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching…

Actor

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I always have a suitcase ready to go. My wife and I are both very much like this. We're both vagabonds, and…

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I think of myself more as a workhorse actor. It will be hot and cold and up and down, but no one…

Actor

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'The River Wild' was great, with Meryl Streep. That guy was really a bad dude who was ultimately sort of fundamentally impotent…

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I don't really worry so much about image. I try to just live my own life, my personal life, to my own…

Character

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The greats are 'The Shining', 'Rosemary's Baby', 'Don't Look Now', 'The Exorcist' - those movies were not really slashers: they were about…

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I'm an actor. It's what I do. It's what I chose to do with my life when I was a little boy,…

Actor

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From an acting standpoint, when I was a kid, I thought I knew everything there was to know. As the years go…

Acting

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There's something therapeutic about nudity. Clothing is one of the external things about a character. Take away the Gucci or Levi's and…

Character

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Fame is something that is tough when it comes. It's a weird thing to take on in real life. I was a…

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I like playing complex, interesting characters. Sometimes I don't think there's much of a strong line between right and wrong for a…

Character

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The whole industry is changing because so many people watch things on DVR, and they watch things on other platforms, and I…

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I felt as if I was the brunt of some massive joke at my expense: Can you believe this loser can be…

Actors

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I worked with kids quite a bit in kind of rough situations, between Sleepers and The River Wild. Just I've been in…

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They took 3-D digital photographs of my entire body. I had to pose stark naked, assuming a kind of Spider-Man position. After…

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Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.

Alcoholic

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I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.

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When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

Clothes

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I don't care what we play, they're gonna start screaming, 'Footloose! Footloose!'

Footloose

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Obviously, my perception of the world is one where humans are a threat to our survival.

Humans

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I'd always tried not to worry about the size of the role or the size of the film.

Fear

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