Kevin Spacey Quotes
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Anyone with a internet connection and an idea can develop an audience
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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.
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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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As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments.
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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.
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I've done big studio films and the big studio films I've done, I've tried to do the interesting ones and the ones where I could live with myself in the morning.
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If youre not concerned about maintaining an image, you can pursue roads that another actor might not take.
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I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.
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The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.
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I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome my dogs.
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Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.
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We're all victims of our own hubris at times.
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But I feel that I have a responsibility to help the film and I have relations with the studio and with those who put up the money so that I can tell a story that I believe in.
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One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.
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Our job, you know, in the entertainment profession is to try to illuminate and show people all sides of humanity, and it doesn't just mean that you can only do movies that are only about the good parts of us. You have to be able to eliminate the bad parts.
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If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!
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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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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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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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Anytime someone can beat the acting out of someone else, I think its a wonderful thing.
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When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.
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After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.
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The story is everything, which means it's our job to tell better stories.
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And I certainly won't lay out areas of my life that I think are just private.