Kevin Spacey Quotes
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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 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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There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.
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Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.
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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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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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I remember meeting the likes of Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart for the first time and being completely starstruck.
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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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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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I think that when you put yourself, as actors have to do, in other people's shoes, when you have to put on the costume that someone else has worn in their life, it gets much, much harder to be prejudiced against them and even to be - to not try to look at the world in a sense of "I'm not going to judge somebody. I'm going to try to understand who they are and what they're about."
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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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One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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 cotton to the idea that people are much closer to being flawed; they have problems and dont always make the right choices.
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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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Its extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.
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Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you will live through again and again, forever. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around. Because this time is all you have.
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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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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.