Kevin Bacon Net Worth

Kevin Bacon's Quotes

• There are two types of actors: those who say they want to be famous and those who are liars.
• 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.
• [about his preference for being nude when at home] There's something therapeutic about nudity. Clothing is one of the external things about a character. Take away the Gucci or Levis and we're all the same. But not when the nanny is around. But I will with my wife and kids.
• [on his wife, Kyra Sedgwick] Kyra is a woman who made all the wrong choices when it comes to being an actress. She got married too young, had a kid and then had another kid.
• [on L.A.] That's where the industry is. There is a tremendous amount of business you can do just by walking through restaurants and just being there.

Interesting Facts about Kevin Bacon

1. Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#61). [1995]
2. Attended the prestigious Julia Reynolds Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School in Philadelphia with his brother, Michael.
3. Inspired a game called "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon", whereby people have to link any given actor to him by no more than six steps. For instance, to do Fred MacMurray, you could observe that MacMurray worked with Lee Marvin in Muiterij op de Caine (1954), which is one step; and Marvin worked with Jane Fonda in Cat Ballou (1965), which is two steps; and Fonda worked with Jack Lemmon in The China Syndrome (1979), which is three steps; and Lemmon worked with Bacon in JFK (1991), which completes the link in four steps. Harder versions of the game exist, limiting the player to five, four or even three steps. The original version of this game existed for numerous years and the pivot-person was then Paul Erdös, a mathematician (one's Erdös number measures the number of people a scientist is away from having authored a paper with Dr. Erdös). A very few people, mostly scientists who have appeared in documentaries (such as Carl Sagan), or actors who have also co-authored scientific papers (such as Danica McKellar and Natalie Portman), have both Erdös AND Bacon numbers.
4. Attended the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts.
5. He was the first choice for the Charlie Sheen part in Being John Malkovich (1999).
6. Is part of The Bacon Brothers, with his older brother Michael Bacon. The band has released three albums: "Forosoco" (1997), "Getting There" (1999) and "Can't Complain" (2001).
7. He sang with brother Michael Bacon (who played guitar) in New York in a small club/coffee shop.
8. His father, Edmund Bacon, a famous Philadelphia city planner, was featured on the November 6, 1964 cover of Time magazine. His mother was Ruth (Holmes) Bacon, a teacher and liberal political activist.
9. Son, Travis Bacon (born June 23, 1989), with wife Kyra Sedgwick.
10. Daughter, Sosie Bacon (born March 15, 1992) with wife Kyra Sedgwick.
11. Has never lived in Hollywood or Los Angeles, except when working.
12. The family dog, a mutt, is called Paulie.
13. Met wife Kyra Sedgwick on the set of Lemon Sky (1988).
14. In preparation for his role in Telling Lies in America (1997), he "hung out" in the radio studio with and based his on-air banter on his friend Jerry Blavat, the celebrated oldies DJ from Philadelphia and an inductee in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; aka the "Geator with the Heater".
15. Brother-in-law of Robert Sedgwick and Betsy Bacon.
16. His father was a seventh cousin of President Richard Nixon.
17. Is a fifth cousin of William Thomas Hamill Jr., married to Virginia Suzanne Johnson, the parents of Mark Hamill.
18. American-born Canadian actor Philip Nozuka, George Nozuka and Justin Nozuka, are his nephews through his wife, Kyra Sedgwick's side of the family.
19. His line, "I am a Goddamn genius", is quoted in both Hollow Man (2000) and Trapped (2002).
20. In Quicksilver (1986) and A Few Good Men (1992), his characters are both nicknamed "Smiling Jack".