421 Quotes by Kevin Spacey

Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.

Gaming is going into storytelling. It was a new audience.

Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.

When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.

Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.

I've never heard of a situation where, because somebody had a particular political belief, they didn't get a part. I think it's a bit of a myth.

Edward Norton and I have known each other awhile. I just think he's the real deal, supremely talented and smart. He's got a great sense of humor.

When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club.

The characters created cannot just be a mouthpiece for the writer. When you look at a piece of writing, and it's genuine and it doesn't feel like every character is just a mouthpiece for the writer, but that they've been created in such a way that they're expressing an idea that a writer wants to get across, that's when a story succeeds.