Quotes from Kevin Bacon

I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.

L.A. kind of scares me.

To me, the struggle is to try to make a less-well-written or less-well-rounded character and find who they are. If you really get it, and it's all on the page, then it's really just gonna pop out at you.

Being with Kyra is so natural for me; it's the easiest aspect of my life. I know that I don't need a beach or room service to be happy.

Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.

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

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 have a suitcase ready to go. My wife and I are both very much like this. We're both vagabonds, and we have been since the time we were married.

My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him.

I wasn't going off to New York to be more famous than my father, but in retrospect, that certainly was driving me. He was famous in Philadelphia, but it was also really important to him to be famous. And to a certain extent, I got some of that, even though there were parts of it that horrified me.

With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is.

I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.

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

I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.

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

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

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.

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.'

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.

My father was into fame and leaving his mark. He was a city planner, sort of a genius in that world, the Robert Moses of Philadelphia. He was on the cover of 'Time' once, and I remember going to his office and seeing, like, two hundred copies, which he would hand out to people.

I don't have any plans of slowing down. I love being an actor.

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.

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

I have a natural swagger.