Kevin Spacey Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• 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

  Fun, Character, Mean

• Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where youre both championing a character and youre revolted by them.

  Kevin Spacey

  Character, Feelings, Grew

• I can't judge the characters I play, because it's for the audience to do. What I can try to do is to understand and embody what were they going through? How did they make the decisions they made? That to me is a more interesting way to approach something, rather than saying this person is a villain and that person is this and - because it's not very interesting to play that anyway.

  Kevin Spacey

  Character, Play, Interesting

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• 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

  Character, Directors, Gone

• 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.

  Kevin Spacey

  Writing, Character, Ideas

  Source: www.skyword.com

• Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and its a brand new audience for me.

  Kevin Spacey

  Character, Games, Trying

• It's the way I feel about acting. That we are given clues by a writer about someone's essence or persona and it's our job to try to figure out which of those clues are true, which of clues we decide to follow and which of those clues we think are red herrings, or only in the way another character thinks of that character.

  Kevin Spacey

  Jobs, Character, Thinking

  "Kevin Spacey, Michael Shannon, Director Liza Johnson Kibitz ‘Elvis and Nixon’". Interview with Carole Di Tosti, blogcritics.org. August 8, 2016.

• Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected.

  Kevin Spacey

  Relationship, Character, Years

• Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.

  Kevin Spacey

  Character, Differences, Actors

• Sometimes you walk away from playing somebody and you think, "Wow that was far as from my own experience as I can possibly be." And sometimes you walk away thinking, "Wow. There are qualities in that character that I didn't realize I had." And those can be both interesting and uncomfortable.

  Kevin Spacey

  Character, Thinking, Interesting

  "Kevin Spacey, Michael Shannon, Director Liza Johnson Kibitz ‘Elvis and Nixon’". Interview with Carole Di Tosti, blogcritics.org. August 8, 2016.

• I dont categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I dont judge; I just play them.

  Kevin Spacey

  Character, Play, Judging

• 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

  Athlete, Character, Night

• Im able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie.

  Kevin Spacey

  Character, Able, Costumes

• I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film.

  Kevin Spacey

  Character, Done, Ugly

• I think that there is no doubt that every experience you have in your life, whether it's playing a character or something else, you bring that to the work.

  Kevin Spacey

  Character, Thinking, Doubt

  "An evening with Richard II". The Telegraph Interview, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 10, 2005.

• The less you know about me the easier it is to convince you that I'm the character on screen.

  Kevin Spacey

  Character, Easier, Convince

  2004 In The Scotsman, 20 Apr.

• 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

  Character, Night, Play

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