Quotes by Kevin Spacey

About Kevin Spacey:

Kevin Spacey Fowler is an American actor, film director, writer, producer, and comedian. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, before being cast in supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclaim in the early 1990s, culminating in his first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the neo-noir crime thriller The Usual Suspects (1995), followed by an Academy Award for Best Actor for midlife crisis-themed drama American Beauty (1999).
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The audience, the place you're in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.

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There are a lot of people out there who offer roles to actors because they'll elevate their movie to a place the movie would never reach.

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'The 24 Hour Plays' is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.

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The process of doing a play is an organic one, and the process of doing a film is totally inorganic.

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Some politicians that I've seen have been brilliant with the public. They almost speak with the skill of an actor.

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To look in the eyes of audiences and see the kind of naughty glee that they got with being on the inside, the audience becomes your co-conspirators.

Kevin Spacey

When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club.

Kevin Spacey

We're going to see a lot of companies that have been portals of entertainment become producers.

Kevin Spacey

Bobby Darin was one of the first to take black musicians on the road with his band, and there were places that didn't want him to play, and he stood up to it.

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Both 'Consenting Adults' and 'Glengarry Glen Ross' revolve around the economic stresses of the '90s. They are about what people do when they're pushed against that wall, and how they're manipulated. They are both morality tales, though in very differ...

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Working in film tends to isolate actors - it's your close-up; it's all about you.

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You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.

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You just play what a writer writes, in terms of what a character chooses to do and how a character chooses to deal with their various relationships.

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You learn every single day when you're running a company. You learn as you go.

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Francis Underwood was entirely based on Richard III. When Michael Dobbs wrote 'House of Cards' in the original British series, Richard III is what he based the character on.

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I never wanted to go to the Old Vic and not have it survive long after I was gone. It's not about me; it's about that theater. And the more that it's able to grow and do everything it should do without me, then I've done my job.

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I believe if you go to a movie theatre, and you see something you think is incredible, if you walk out of the theatre and there was a bin in the lobby of DVDs of the film you just watched, you would buy four of them - one for you and three for your f...

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I think that what is truly unfortunate is when an entire party makes a decision that they're going to block every single thing that a president wants to accomplish. It's very - it's very hard to get anything done in those circumstances.

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I've always found it strange that a director can hire any designer he wants from any country. But if he hires a foreign actor, it's like he's stolen the crown jewels and run across the river with them.

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The fact is that HBO is doing the kind of films and the kind of stories that the movie industry used to do. You look at a lot of the specialty sections of studios that have gone under... and there's no doubt in my mind why filmmakers and screenwriter...

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I'm always taken aback by things that are successful that I think are just crap, and then I'm completely surprised when things I do end up being successful because you walk into things and you never know... It's just really remarkable.

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Author Bio

  • NameKevin Spacey
  • DescriptionAmerican actor, director, screenwriter, producer
  • BornJuly 26, 1959
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Actor; Theatre Director; Film Director; Actor; Television Actor; Film Producer; Screenwriter; Voice Actor
  • AwardsLaurence Olivier Award; Academy Award For Best Actor; Academy Award For Best Supporting Actor; Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire