199 Quotes by Kevin Bacon

Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can’t go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else’s success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.

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.

You have to have something in your life that’s more important than the work. People don’t really like to admit that. I think that you have to find something else. I don’t know what it is. Is it yoga or God or politics? For me it’s just family.

It’s easy to get laid when you’re rich and famous. When you’re broke and unknown, it takes skill.

There’s something therapeutic about nudity. Clothing is one of the external things about a character. Take away the Gucci or Levi’s and we’re all the same. But not when the nanny is around. But I will with my wife and kids.

Some people have therapy, some people are alcoholics or they’re in AA. Some people jump out of planes on weekends or find ways to release this kind of thing. And for me, it’s acting. I find acting very therapeutic for whatever it is.

There are two types of actors: those who say they don’t want to be famous and those who are liars.

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

I’m a vagabond. I have a suitcase that is ready to go at a moment’s notice. The thought of being in one place for a long time, or playing one character for a long time, is terrifying for me.