Kevin Spacey Quotes
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If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesnt that show an incredible attention span?
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I remember meeting the likes of Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart for the first time and being completely starstruck.
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The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.
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The journey that we go on as actors is an interesting one and sometimes a revealing one.
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Im attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.
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We're all victims of our own hubris at times.
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I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded.
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In recent years we've seen an explosion of creative programming, and I think it represents a third golden age of television because the creators have more control over the story. The audience doesn't care about the platform. They care about the content.
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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.
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The story is everything, which means it's our job to tell better stories.
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There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.
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Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow... Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.
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I think people love it when anybody acts bad; its not particular to me.
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Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.
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And I certainly won't lay out areas of my life that I think are just private.
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If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.
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Theatre is organic, film is not. Theatre you come every day and you work with a group of people and you're are all up for it and you all get to do the whole thing every night, be it two hours or three hours. In film you work in two or three minute bits and it's never in chronological order and then someone takes that away and makes it look like it all happened, or that you gave that performance.
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There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose.
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I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.
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For kids growing up now, there's no difference watching 'Avatar' on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching 'Game of Thrones' on their computer. It's all content. It's just story.
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I open myself up every time I walk on screen and give you everything that I am. There are parts of me that are in every movie that I've done. That to me is what my job is.
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Sometimes you walk away from playing somebody and you think, "Wow that was far as from my own experience as I can possibly be." And sometimes you walk away thinking, "Wow. There are qualities in that character that I didn't realize I had." And those can be both interesting and uncomfortable.
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Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.
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We have learned the lesson that the music industry didn't learn. Give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price - and they'll more likely pay for it rather than steal it.