Kevin Spacey Quotes
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We're all victims of our own hubris at times.
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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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When you know you have 1,000 people sitting on the edge of their seats in silence because of a shift that just happened on stage, there is no better feeling.
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I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded.
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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 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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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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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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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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There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.
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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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The story is everything, which means it's our job to tell better stories.
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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 think people love it when anybody acts bad; its not particular to me.
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I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.
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If you're watching a film on your television, is it no longer a film because you're not watching it in a theatre? If you watch a TV show on your iPad, is it no longer a TV show? The device and the length are irrelevant; the labels are useless, except perhaps to agents and managers and lawyers, who use these labels to conduct business deals.
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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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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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There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose.
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Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to.