Kevin Spacey
I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. Ive got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.Collection: Book
I cotton to the idea that people are much closer to being flawed; they have problems and dont always make the right choices.Collection: Ideas
I think people love it when anybody acts bad; its not particular to me.Collection: Thinking
Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and its a brand new audience for me.Collection: Character
Essentially, your voice is an instrument; its a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have to work it.Collection: Voice
I dont even think in terms of ambition.Collection: Ambition
I couldnt imagine something asking as much of me as House Of Cards. Its a great warm-up for coming back to the screen.Collection: House Of Cards
Im attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.Collection: Fun
Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where youre both championing a character and youre revolted by them.Collection: Character
Whether thats positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.Collection: Passion
I guess Ive been training in the theater for as long as I can remember.Collection: Long
I dont play villainy. I wouldnt even know how to play it.Collection: Play
I dont categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I dont judge; I just play them.Collection: Character
Anytime someone can beat the acting out of someone else, I think its a wonderful thing.Collection: Thinking
I just want it to be better, I just want to be better, but this is very encouraging.Collection: Want
Its extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.Collection: Compare
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.Collection: Wisdom
Kids arent growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.Collection: Growing Up
Theres nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to.Collection: Able
The 24 Hour Plays is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.Collection: Play
Anyone with a internet connection and an idea can develop an audienceCollection: Ideas
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.Collection: Night
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.Collection: Jobs
The journey that we go on as actors is an interesting one and sometimes a revealing one.Collection: Journey
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.Collection: Mistake
There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.Collection: Interesting
I don't know who Keyser Soze is, but whoever he is, he is going to get gloriously drunk tonight.Collection: Drunk
My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.Collection: Jobs
No one’s personal life is in the public interest. It’s gossip, bottom line. End of story.Collection: Gossip
I always remember is that no matter how good I might be in a movie, I'll never be any better. It's frozen. But in theatre I can be better tomorrow night, I can be better the night after that and I can be better in a week. The journey you go through as an actor is incredible.Collection: Night
If youre not concerned about maintaining an image, you can pursue roads that another actor might not take.Collection: Actors
If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.Collection: Jobs
I accept the fact that some things dont go the way you hope.Collection: Way
Sometimes its the crazy people who turn out to be not so crazy.Collection: Crazy
No one should ever feel sorry for me. Ive been treated very well for the most part.Collection: Sorry
Pushing the boundaries of what is expected of you is important to me.Collection: Important
You must find a way to express your ideas and compel your audience to react through the idea itself, and then figuring out what the best representative of that idea may be, and bringing it to life.Collection: Ideas
[Washington, DC] feels like you're watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don't believe them, I don't believe what they say, I don't think they're being absolutely sincere. I think it's performance art. And most of them are bad actors.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Jobs
I have talked to more people who are in politics who have said to me, "[House of Cards] is closer than you can imagine. It's the most accurate description of how politics actually works that we've ever seen." I mean, West Wing - beautiful, wonderful idea of how democracy should work. But I've had more people in politics say they think House of Cards is closer. I - don't know whether to take that as a compliment or a sad state of affairs.Collection: Beautiful
It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished.Collection: Negative
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.Collection: Availability
To me, getting up every single night and trying to reach out to an audience, and trying to dig deeper and further in the play to serve the writer and to understand yourself in that context is how you continue to grow and learn.Collection: Night
I was terrible in my first play. After that experience, I had to face that I wasnt good enough to play with the big boys. I had to go away and learn, so I worked in regional theater for three years. I even understudied at the Kennedy Center.Collection: Boys
The movies are not my first priority - the theater is.Collection: Priorities
Its a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.Collection: Ambition
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.Collection: Trying
If you wanna compete, youve got to get into the original content game.Collection: Games
It's Hard to Stay Mad When There's So Much Beauty in the WorldCollection: Beauty