Kevin Bacon

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.”

“Fame is something that is tough when it comes. It's a weird thing to take on in real life. I was a little bit afraid and, as a result, kind of turned my back on it. You should embrace it because it's going to be a part of who you are, and it's going to be a part of what this business is about.”

“The greats are 'The Shining', 'Rosemary's Baby', 'Don't Look Now', 'The Exorcist' - those movies were not really slashers: they were about psychological terror and had very deep emotional backdrops. If we do our best, '6 Miranda Drive' can be that kind of a movie.”

“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.”

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

“'Kung Fury!' I mean, Jesus, that thing is amazing.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You have to have something in your life that's more important than the work. People don't really like to admit that. They say, 'Oh, my work is my most important thing.'”

“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 like playing complex, interesting characters. Sometimes I don't think there's much of a strong line between right and wrong for a character. Every character is somewhere on a moral spectrum.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”