Quotes from Kevin Bacon

For years and years, people would say, 'The business is changing.' And I would say, 'The business is not changing. It's exactly the same as it was in the '70s, the '80s and the '90s.' But all of a sudden, the business changed, and it really did change.

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.

My brother is the lifelong musician; he made the choice to do that when we were very, very young kids. I remember him playing in bands and listening to the music he was writing in the house - he's nine years older than me.

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

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

The whole industry is changing because so many people watch things on DVR, and they watch things on other platforms, and I think everybody is kind of scratching their heads about how this is going to play out.

For my wife and I, for so many years, a lot of our identity was based on being Hollywood haters. We were like, 'We're east-coast. We're New Yorkers. This is just a place that we have to come to, but not by choice.'

Whether it's my age or my misspent youth, sometimes I forget whether I've worked with somebody or not.

There is this idea that your social media platform is the secret to success, but no one has quite proven that to be true, if you ask me.

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

I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.

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.

Somebody with a billion followers can tweet, 'See my movie,' and it can still tank. Followers don't always translate into success because I think people are too savvy. When something takes off, it's because people are connecting to it - not because someone with a lot of followers says to care about it.

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

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

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.

In my movie work, if I do one guy, the next guy I do, I want to do something kind of different. Even in terms of genre - it's really great to mix it up a little.

I think there is a puritanical wind that is blowing. I have never seen such a lack of separation between church and state in America, I don't believe in God, but if I did I would say that sex is a Godgiven right. Otherwise it's the end of our species.

I say the secret to longevity is longevity. Hang in there long enough and keep working. When I was a kid I thought I knew everything there was to know about the business and the more I work, the more I know how much more there is to know and how much more I have to learn.

There's something therapeutic about nudity ... Take away the Gucci or Levi's and we're all the same.

Hollywood is more of an idea than a place.

I'm not a public speaker. I don't even like making toasts. It hits me in a way I can't really explain. I've literally sat with a therapist to try to figure out what that is, because I'm such a public persona.

I don't read reviews. I haven't read them for probably 30 years. I can't. When they're bad, they're really rough, and when they're good, they're not good enough.

I've done tonnes of things that have not been successful -- movie after movie after movie that just went right in the toilet. You have to get yourself ready for those dips.