Author Profile
Kevin Spacey
1959 • American • Actor
63
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 63 quotesI 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.— Kevin Spacey
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 screenwriters and actors are ending up at a place like HBO. They do it better than anybody.— Kevin Spacey
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.— Kevin Spacey
The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors' theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.— Kevin Spacey
I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.— Kevin Spacey
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.— Kevin Spacey
I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?— Kevin Spacey
I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.— Kevin Spacey
I was on a couple of scholarships. I had a job in the school administrative office. I had a job as a hat-check boy in a restaurant. I had another job as an assistant to a casting director. It took a lot to get myself enough money to put myself through Juilliard.— Kevin Spacey
I've never done a movie that's shot more than 40 days because I just don't do those kinds of films.— Kevin Spacey