199 Quotes by Kevin Bacon

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.

I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing with you and putting make-up on you and telling you when to wake up and when to go to sleep, holding your hand to cross the street. I can do it up to a certain point, and then I start to feel like a puppet.

I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.

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.

Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.

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

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.

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous.