421 Quotes by Kevin Spacey

There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor or actress, by the end, theyve forgotten that, and they leave going, Wow – what an amazing play.

I’m lucky if I find one movie a year that’s worth doing, and when I do find one, it usually only takes 20-30 days to shoot.

What a martyr craves more than anything is a sword to fall on, so you sharpen the blade and hold it at just the right angle.

The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won’t admit he played badly.

Sometimes I’ll be flipping through the channels and I’ll see a movie I’m in. And I’ll probably stop and think, ‘Sure, I’ll watch this.’

I always remember is that no matter how good I might be in a movie, I’ll never be any better. It’s frozen. But in theatre I can be better tomorrow night, I can be better the night after that and I can be better in a week. The journey you go through as an actor is incredible.

We’ve learned the lesson that the music industry didn’t learn: give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price, and they’ll more likely pay for it rather than steal it.

No one’s personal life is in the public interest. It’s gossip, bottom line. End of story.

I can’t imagine that anyone in Hollywood is sitting around trying to decide what actor is good or right or qualified for a role and is being denied a role because of their political views. I don’t think that’s the way Hollywood works. We’re not living in an era of blacklisting.