Top 50 Kevin Bacon Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Kevin Bacon

2. “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.”

— Kevin Bacon

3. “A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.”

— Kevin Bacon

4. “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.”

— Kevin Bacon

5. “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.”

— Kevin Bacon

6. “I have a natural swagger.”

— Kevin Bacon

7. “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

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

— Kevin Bacon

9. “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.”

— Kevin Bacon

10. “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.”

— Kevin Bacon

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

— Kevin Bacon

12. “Before Footloose, the things I’d done weren’t cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.”

— Kevin Bacon

13. “The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.”

— Kevin Bacon

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

— Kevin Bacon

15. “When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other.”

— Kevin Bacon

16. “I’m very comfortable being married to an extremely strong, opinionated, and driven woman. But I also sit at the head of the table. I have both of those sides to me.”

— Kevin Bacon

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17. “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.”

— Kevin Bacon

18. “I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at.”

— Kevin Bacon

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19. “I think of myself more as a workhorse actor. It will be hot and cold and up and down, but no one will kick me out of the business.”

— Kevin Bacon

20. “I try to show compassion to people I come into contact with and try to put good out, as much good as I can. But that’s my life; that’s not my work. With my work, my job is to walk in another man’s shoes.”

— Kevin Bacon

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

— Kevin Bacon

22. “Everybody’s got bills to pay. Sometimes you see people just go straight for the money, and that’s disappointing.”

— Kevin Bacon

23. “There are people who tell you to shut up because you’re just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they’re every bit the celebrity and a lot of them aren’t any more qualified than the average man on the street.”

— Kevin Bacon

24. “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

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25. “Doing the press, it’s part of my job, so I do it with a smile on my face, but I’m not comfortable in the hot seat.”

— Kevin Bacon

26. “When it comes to music, it’s my clothes, it’s my guitar, it’s my voice, it’s my song.”

— Kevin Bacon

27. “I’ve made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It’s melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.”

— Kevin Bacon

28. “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

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29. “I always watch rushes. They give me a sense of whether I’m going in the right direction. You work hard and hopefully get encouragement from what you see.”

— Kevin Bacon

30. “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

31. “I don’t really worry so much about image. I try to just live my own life, my personal life, to my own sense of morality. In terms of the kinds of characters that I play, well, they could be anything.”

— Kevin Bacon

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

— Kevin Bacon

33. “I don’t have to do the lead. If I dig a part, I’ll do it.”

— Kevin Bacon

34. “Obviousl, my perception of the world is one where humans are a threat to our survival.”

— Kevin Bacon

35. “Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.”

— Kevin Bacon

36. “I’m obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.”

— Kevin Bacon

37. “I’ll be honest with you. My kids don’t watch my movies and never have. I can maybe name a film one hand that they’ve seen, actually, all the way through.”

— Kevin Bacon

38. “The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie.”

— Kevin Bacon

39. “I did all the dialect work, all my character work completely by myself.”

— Kevin Bacon

40. “Even the people that support Bush aren’t happy with the way things are going in Iraq.”

— Kevin Bacon

41. “A lot of times, the script is the thing they care about least.”

— Kevin Bacon

42. “I’d love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.”

— Kevin Bacon

43. “I’d always tried not to worry about the size of the role or the size of the film.”

— Kevin Bacon

44. “I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.”

— Kevin Bacon

45. “After so many years it’s embarrassing to admit that I don’t honestly know how much I want to be directed.”

— Kevin Bacon

46. “I’m always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.”

— Kevin Bacon

47. “I’ve been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.”

— Kevin Bacon

48. “I think everybody reacts to entertainment with a different kind of visceral way, probably mostly based on their own personal experiences. I think everybody reacts to entertainment with a different kind of visceral way, probably mostly based on their own personal experiences.”

— Kevin Bacon

49. “There’s the most resistance to an actor singing. It’s like I’m being disloyal to my industry.”

— Kevin Bacon

50. “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