When I was a teenager, the actors I was really into were Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn. I saw 'Rumble Fish' on my 16th birthday, and around the same time, it was 'Falcon and the Snowman' and 'Bad Boys' from Sean Penn.
I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.
I love the simplicity of Kevin Spacey's work. He really does a subtle interpretation of every character, and that's kind of my style of acting when it comes to dramatic roles.
As a kid, as a young actor, I really wanted to pop. I wanted to create something different. I wanted to be Sean Penn, but I didn't have all the words to be Sean Penn. But I was trying to do something different in every role.
I love 'House of Cards.' I would watch Kevin Spacey read the phone book.
I'm not that complicated as an actor. I have a formula in which I work, yeah. But not like Sean Penn does. Sean is one of the few actors I know who can work like that, actually becoming the character he is playing, and get consistent results. I don't believe you can ever be someone else. You manifest different levels of your own personality to come up with a character.
'House Of Cards' with Kevin Spacey - I love how it portrays humans in power as just like the rest of us - but even worse.
David Fincher's work has all been incredibly well-received on Netflix, and Kevin Spacey's films have all worked on Netflix.
All I'm saying is that I rarely find myself pointing to Sean Penn's love life thinking, 'I want to be like that.'
I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.
I enjoy watching Daniel Day Lewis, Jude Law, Edward Norton, Kevin Spacey.
I want to be host of 'SNL.' I want to work with Steven Spielberg, Leonardo DiCaprio, J.J. Abrams, Emma Stone and Tim Burton, Sean Penn, Cameron Crowe. I want to work with Adam Sandler - he is so funny - and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.
I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn.
The thing is this: I've got an amazing career in England that couldn't possibly get much better. I do the best theater around, I work at the National Theater, the Old Vic - which I'm sure you've heard of because it's the one Kevin Spacey runs - and I play the most amazing roles and work with the most amazing directors.
Sean Penn has never become the lighter, laughing guy.