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. – Kevin Bacon
I started making movies in 1977, and I didn’t even think about the idea that I would ever be on a television show. Once I finished the ‘Guiding Light,’ I was like, ‘I’m done with television!’ – Kevin Bacon
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. – Kevin Bacon
The greats are ‘The Shining’, ‘Rosemary’s Baby’, ‘Don’t Look Now’, ‘The Exorcist’ – those movies were not really slashers: they were about psychological terror and had very deep emotional backdrops. If we do our best, ‘6 Miranda Drive’ can be that kind of a movie. – Kevin Bacon
If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds… For a guy to feel like he’s a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you’re on your way into the grave. – Kevin Bacon
I like to play characters, man. I almost don’t even think of them as good guys or bad guys. I know that’s a hard thing to realize, but I really just think of them as characters. – Kevin Bacon
I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don’t think that’s only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that. – Kevin Bacon
‘Animal House’ was my first movie, so I didn’t have anything to compare it to. I was a sight gag more than anything else. So I can’t say it was one of those things where your life changes. When the movie came out, I had to ask for the night off at the bar. – Kevin Bacon
Here’s the thing – I mean, I don’t act for statues. I really don’t. The great thing about winning an award is that it creates opportunities. – Kevin Bacon
‘The River Wild’ was great, with Meryl Streep. That guy was really a bad dude who was ultimately sort of fundamentally impotent in a weird way. That was kind of interesting. – Kevin Bacon
With ‘Transparent’. When Amazon put ‘Transparent’ up, along with ‘Bosch’ and a few other things, I watched them, and I thought it was an interesting exercise. I didn’t comment on them, but I was like, ‘Okay, this is kind of cool.’ – Kevin Bacon
Fame is something that is tough when it comes. It’s a weird thing to take on in real life. I was a little bit afraid and, as a result, kind of turned my back on it. You should embrace it because it’s going to be a part of who you are, and it’s going to be a part of what this business is about. – Kevin Bacon
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. – Kevin Bacon
A moustache is actually the one thing I really can grow. One of the bad parts about my facial hair situation is that I can’t grow sideburns. I’m happy to still have my own hair on my head, but I can’t grow any sideburns. If you ever see me with sideburns, they’re not real. – Kevin Bacon
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. – Kevin Bacon
In my movie work, if I do one guy, the next guy I do, I want to do something kind of different. Even in terms of genre – it’s really great to mix it up a little. – Kevin Bacon
I don’t read my own reviews and I haven’t for probably 15 years. I read other people’s reviews, though. – Kevin Bacon
I’d really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I’m the action guy. – Kevin Bacon
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. – Kevin Bacon
I’ve played a lot of bad guys, and I’m pretty good at leaving my work at the office. And I look at acting as having a certain sort of therapeutic nature to it. – Kevin Bacon
There’s this American dream to put enough away that you can golf and build a birdhouse or just be in a Barcalounger watching football all day. I’ll never be that guy. And I’m not really sure the people who have that are all that happy. Our desires as a man are to work, plow ahead, and overcome conflict. – Kevin Bacon
Kevin’s mind goes to extremely interesting places. Every time we get a script, I go, ‘Oh my God, I really didn’t see that coming’. – Kevin Bacon
Doing funny scary is something that is rarely good and rarely works, and it’s also something that’s incredibly hard to market. – Kevin Bacon