Top 339 Quotes & Sayings by Kevin Spacey - Page 4

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.

People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.

There's no doubt that some of the greatest films ever made have come from the theater. It's all a matter of finding a way to make the theater experience watchable on film.

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

As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of their time raising millions of dollars for television ads, it will be corrupt. If we leave it up to the politicians to clean up lobbying and finance reform, nothing is going to change.

I cotton to the idea that people are much closer to being flawed; they have problems and don't always make the right choices.

Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.

There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor or actress, by the end, they've forgotten that, and they leave going, 'Wow - what an amazing play.'

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

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.

I have to remember if I'm at some charitable event where kids are... I try to remember don't swear in front of the kids!

Meeting the person you are going to be playing is very unique.

Over the years, I've spent a lot of time in Washington. It's a great theater town.

President Obama will go down as having passed some of the most historic bills in the history of this country.

Whether it's 'Veep' or 'Homeland' or 'The West Wing' - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.

Pushing the boundaries of what is expected of you is important to me.

I suppose the most important thing is to stay interested. It's very easy in life if you get to a place where you're successful to hit the same groove on the record player over and over again because it's safe.

Secret Cinema has created a new way of experiencing film. The fusion of film and theatre allows for a much more powerful experience and adds an incredibly unique dimension for the audience. It certainly did for me. I was blown away

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.

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.

Anyone with a internet connection and an idea can develop an audience

You can't win a marathon without putting some bandaids on your nipples!

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.

If you wanna compete, youve got to get into the original content game.

It's Hard to Stay Mad When There's So Much Beauty in the World

[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.

We have learned the lesson that the music industry didn't learn. Give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price - and they'll more likely pay for it rather than steal it.

The movies are not my first priority - the theater is.

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.

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.

Its a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.

Wanting people to listen, you can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you'll notice you've got their strict attention.

Sometimes its the crazy people who turn out to be not so crazy.

A man can convince anyone hes someone else but never himself.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was making us believe that he's not real.

Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.

You can't turn a "no" to a "yes" without a "maybe" in between.

No one should ever feel sorry for me. Ive been treated very well for the most part.

If you're lucky enough to have done well, then it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.

The story is everything, which means it's our job to tell better stories.

It's the way I feel about acting. That we are given clues by a writer about someone's essence or persona and it's our job to try to figure out which of those clues are true, which of clues we decide to follow and which of those clues we think are red herrings, or only in the way another character thinks of that character.

The journey that we go on as actors is an interesting one and sometimes a revealing one.

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.

My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.

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.

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.

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.

I accept the fact that some things dont go the way you hope.

If I'm sick of me, I can only imagine how other people feel.

The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.

The less you know about me the easier it is to convince you that I'm the character on screen.

No one’s personal life is in the public interest. It’s gossip, bottom line. End of story.

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.

Let's let people live their lives and do it the way they want to do it.

If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.

If youre not concerned about maintaining an image, you can pursue roads that another actor might not take.

There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.

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.

It's much more interesting when you go to different places - make a left turn when nobody expects you to make a left turn, and make a right when nobody expects you to do that.

I don't know who Keyser Soze is, but whoever he is, he is going to get gloriously drunk tonight.