Quotes By Kevin Bacon

When it happened to us and it was all gone overnight, we said, 'We are in this together, we are healthy, our children are healthy and we can work'.

Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.

I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.

There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

There is a lesson there about greed and it is a lesson I am willing to learn as well. Has it made me a distrustful person? I don't think so. But we probably look a bit more carefully at our financial situation now.

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 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.

There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep.

I don't have to do the lead. If I dig a part, I'll do it.

As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.

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

If I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me and treats me like everyone else, I'm not used to it.