Kevin Spacey Quotes

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome my dogs.

Its a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.

I often make the analogy with tennis. Every match the rules are the same, but no game is ever the same. Theatre is like that. Every time is different.

The greatest sound in the theater is silence.

Talent is only interesting if it's challenged.

If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.

At the end of the day, storytelling is actually very simple in its origin as long as there are people who want to tell stories and there are people who want to hear them.

While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a childs imagination.

Theatre is alive and it is now, and then it's gone.

Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.

Anyone with a internet connection and an idea can develop an audience

If I'm sick of me, I can only imagine how other people feel.

I don't know who Keyser Soze is, but whoever he is, he is going to get gloriously drunk tonight.

My job is to interpret. I'm an interpreter. I can add things and bring unique qualities to the role that the writer may not have thought of, but someone else created the fundamental idea.

[What's my favourite book?] It changes all the time.

Sometimes I'll be flipping through the channels and I'll see a movie I'm in. And I'll probably stop and think, 'Sure, I'll watch this.'

After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.

I certainly identify with the role of mentor and, to some degree, maybe teacher. I do a lot of work with kids at the Old Vic.

My mother was sarcastic and delightful and, trust me, quite remarkable.

A man can convince anyone hes someone else but never himself.

Sometimes its the crazy people who turn out to be not so crazy.

No one should ever feel sorry for me. Ive been treated very well for the most part.

Pushing the boundaries of what is expected of you is important to me.

You must find a way to express your ideas and compel your audience to react through the idea itself, and then figuring out what the best representative of that idea may be, and bringing it to life.

For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.

If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.

I accept the fact that some things dont go the way you hope.

The movies are not my first priority - the theater is.

One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

If you have done well in whatever business you are in, it is your duty to send the elevator back down and try to help bring up the next generation of undiscovered talent.

If you wanna compete, youve got to get into the original content game.

It is not about whether you are an executive, a studio or a network. If you have a story or an idea you can build a following for it.

If it were not for people who stepped forward and gave me opportunities at a time when I had not proved myself at all, believe me, I would not have a career.

Its the details and the human element that makes Recount entertaining. Even though we know how the election ends, it plays like a thriller. Its also funny.

I think that there is no doubt that every experience you have in your life, whether it's playing a character or something else, you bring that to the work.

If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesnt that show an incredible attention span?

When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club.

The 24 Hour Plays is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.

I just want it to be better, I just want to be better, but this is very encouraging.

Theres nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to.

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.

You learn every single day when youre running a company. You learn as you go.

Im able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie.

Im attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.

Theres no doubt that some of the greatest films ever made have come from the theater. Its all a matter of finding a way to make the theater experience watchable on film.

Look, at the end of the day people have to respect people's differences. I am different than some people would like me to be.

Whether thats positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.

In film, movies schedules are based on three things: actors availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place youre going to film in.