I am so leading the life that I want and wanted and dreamed of as a kid. I’m trying very hard not to abuse it or take advantage of it. – Kevin Spacey
I don’t care about my personal acting career anymore. I’m done with it. After 10 years of making movies and doing better than I ever could have imagined, I sort of had to ask myself: ‘What am I supposed to do with all of this success that I have had?’ – Kevin Spacey
Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories. – 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. – Kevin Spacey
I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage my ideas and energies. – Kevin Spacey
In film, movies’ schedules are based on three things: actors’ availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place you’re going to film in. – Kevin Spacey
The next day I was in my school’s production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn’t recognized before. – 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
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. – 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. – Kevin Spacey
I couldn’t imagine something asking as much of me as ‘House Of Cards.’ It’s a great warm-up for coming back to the screen. – Kevin Spacey
At the end of the day, people have to respect people’s differences. I am different than some people would like me to be. – Kevin Spacey
The stigma that used to exist many years ago, that actors from film don’t do television, seems to have disappeared. That camera doesn’t know it’s a TV camera… or even a streaming camera. It’s just a camera. – Kevin Spacey
There does seem to be in the U.S. now an ideology and an entrenchment that has stopped people doing what they are hired to do, which is govern rather than run for office the whole time. – Kevin Spacey
I felt that I shouldn’t be an actor who just makes movie after movie in a quest for prestige and money. – Kevin Spacey
It’s the details and the human element that makes ‘Recount’ entertaining. Even though we know how the election ends, it plays like a thriller. It’s also funny. – Kevin Spacey
I’ve been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected. – Kevin Spacey
What hasn’t surprised me is that audiences, as we found starting with box sets, want control, to decide how they watch it. Appointment viewing is slowly being put slightly behind. – 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 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
Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions you’d rather not know the answers to. – Kevin Spacey
If you haven’t turned rebel by twenty you’ve got no heart; if you haven’t turned establishment by thirty you’ve got no brains! – Kevin Spacey
When I was young, I learned very early on that I could make my mother laugh. And that was one of the greatest sounds I ever heard. – Kevin Spacey
