Kevin Bacon Quotes

That is the fun of being an actor. You play all different kinds of people.

When you play a character, you get to see the world through their eyes. Whether it's a fictional world or a real world, you do get to see somebody else's point of view, whether he's a good guy or a bad guy.

If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you're a starship captain or a time traveler.

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.

I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting. The more different they are, the bigger the challenge.

I liken every character that I do to a relationship that you're in.

I want everyone to understand that as an actor you need to be able to play different roles, be versatile even in terms of your personality.

I recognize my physical limitations, but I am an actor who is able to transform himself into someone else.

Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself.

My job always is to play a person, not to judge her.

I just try not to look at any role as a comedic role or a dramatic role. I just try to stay in the movie I'm in.

When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like.

As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.

I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.'

Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.

As an actor, I'll play anything.

That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.

The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good.

You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.

As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.