There are times when you do a play when you are living in the character over a two-and-a-half-hour period or longer, and you come to the end of the night, and you can feel like you were hit by a truck. – Kevin Spacey
Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get. – Kevin Spacey
I don’t categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don’t judge; I just play them. – Kevin Spacey
I was terrible in my first play. After that experience, I had to face that I wasn’t 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. – Kevin Spacey
If you go out eight times and play tennis eight times this week, yeah, it’s the same rules, but it’s a different game every time you’re out on that court. You’re working on a different part of your game every time you’re out on that court; your partner’s working on a different part of their game, and the act of being watched changes it. – Kevin Spacey
Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where you’re both championing a character and you’re revolted by them. – Kevin Spacey
To look in the eyes of audiences and see the kind of naughty glee that they got with being on the inside, the audience becomes your co-conspirators. – Kevin Spacey
There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose. – Kevin Spacey
I am different than some people would like me to be. I just don’t buy into that the personal can be political. – Kevin Spacey
People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want. – Kevin Spacey
I’ve been on sets where things weren’t relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason. – Kevin Spacey
It’s not easy to sustain a long career, and sometimes I don’t even think about how long I’ve been doing it. – Kevin Spacey
For kids growing up now, there’s no difference watching ‘Avatar’ on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching ‘Game of Thrones’ on their computer. It’s all content. It’s just story. – Kevin Spacey
If there is one thing I object to, it’s actors talking about how tough their jobs are. – Kevin Spacey
The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors’ theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances. – Kevin Spacey
It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a row. And there are many young performers who only learn their craft in the two minute bits it takes to film a scene. You never learn the arc of storytelling, the arc of a character that way. – Kevin Spacey
I terribly miss – we all miss, I think – somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people. – Kevin Spacey
Anytime someone can beat the acting out of someone else, I think it’s a wonderful thing. – Kevin Spacey
If you’re lucky enough to do well, it’s your responsibility to send the elevator back down. – Kevin Spacey
People don’t tend to hassle me because when I’ve got a hat on, I look like a banker. I’m just a plain guy. – Kevin Spacey
There are a lot of people out there who offer roles to actors because they’ll elevate their movie to a place the movie would never reach. – Kevin Spacey
If you’re watching a film on your television, is it no longer a film because you’re not watching it in a theatre? If you watch a TV show on your iPad, is it no longer a TV show? The device and the length are irrelevant; the labels are useless, except perhaps to agents and managers and lawyers, who use these labels to conduct business deals. – Kevin Spacey
You can almost hear people saying, ‘We’re going to make a movie about an election’ and ‘We’re going to make a movie about a lobbyist.’ You can hear the yawning start across the nation. – Kevin Spacey
I would love to do much more singing; it’s just one of those things where I can’t quite describe what it feels like when you’re standing in front of a forty piece orchestra, and there’s nothing between you and an audience but a microphone. It’s like strapping yourself to a locomotive, and I love it. – Kevin Spacey
