Kevin Spacey Quotes
-
Its extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.
-
We're all victims of our own hubris at times.
-
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 Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.
-
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.
-
If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.
-
When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.
-
I just want it to be better, I just want to be better, but this is very encouraging.
-
Anytime someone can beat the acting out of someone else, I think its a wonderful thing.
-
The story is everything, which means it's our job to tell better stories.
-
A couple of clues came my way of what I might be getting myself into when I sat down with a number of actors who had played Richard III in the past. And I was hoping of course, that one of them or all of them were gonna give me the magic key, the secret way in to play Richard III but none of them did that.But every one of them did say the following, "Be careful."
-
I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.
-
Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow... Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.
-
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.
-
Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.
-
I want to bring theatre to a new generation, using the tools available to us, including taking it out to them on film and with new technology, but that is just so they can discover theatre. I want them to come in and sit in a theatre. This is the way to plant seeds.
-
If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.
-
You can't turn a "no" to a "yes" without a "maybe" in between.
-
The journey that we go on as actors is an interesting one and sometimes a revealing one.
-
Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.
-
To know what you want, to understand why you're doing it, to dedicate every breath in your body to achieve... If you feel you have something to give, if you feel that your particular talent is worth developing, is worth caring for then there's nothing you can`t achieve.
-
After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.
-
I've been around politics a long time. I've seen it at its best and its worst, been at so many events, listened to private conversations versus public speaking, understood the game of it, and in many ways the theatrics.
-
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.