"I was on a couple of scholarships. I had a job in the school administrative office. I had a job as a..." — Kevin Spacey

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.

I always thought that, in a way, you want your Superman to be a total unknown.

What's my favourite book? It changes all the time.

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.