Latest Kevin Spacey Quotes from Interviews

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• The journey that we go on as actors is an interesting one and sometimes a revealing one.

  Kevin Spacey

  Journey, Interesting, Actors

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

• There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.

  Kevin Spacey

  Interesting, Actors, Stuff

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

• 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.

• There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or the Cleopatras that we've seen on stage.

  Kevin Spacey

  Doe, Roles, Incredibles

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

• 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.

• I find drinking really helps.

  Kevin Spacey

  Drinking, Helping

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

• We have to start listening to nature now.

  Kevin Spacey

  Listening

• Clean, sustainable energy is crucial and cannot wait.

  Kevin Spacey

  Waiting, Energy, Clean

• Nature's message is clear: we can't keep doing what we're doing now.

  Kevin Spacey

  Messages, Clear

• I've done big studio films and the big studio films I've done, I've tried to do the interesting ones and the ones where I could live with myself in the morning.

  Kevin Spacey

  Morning, Interesting, Done

  Source: www.discdish.com

• I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie.

  Kevin Spacey

  Want, Might, Scene

  Source: www.discdish.com

• Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.

  Kevin Spacey

  Mother, House, Records

  Source: www.discdish.com

• Pushing the boundaries of what is expected of you is important to me.

  Kevin Spacey

  Important, Pushing, Boundaries

  Source: www.skyword.com

• Talent is only interesting if it's challenged.

  Kevin Spacey

  Interesting, Talent, Ifs

  Source: www.skyword.com

• It's much more interesting when you go to different places - make a left turn when nobody expects you to make a left turn, and make a right when nobody expects you to do that.

  Kevin Spacey

  Interesting, Different, Turns

  Source: www.skyword.com

• It's the kind of democratization of the Internet that has led to the breaking down of barriers into the creative arts.

  Kevin Spacey

  Art, Creative, Kind

  Source: www.skyword.com

• I suppose the most important thing is to stay interested. It's very easy in life if you get to a place where you're successful to hit the same groove on the record player over and over again because it's safe.

  Kevin Spacey

  Successful, Player, Important

  Source: www.skyword.com

• At the end of the day, storytelling is actually very simple in its origin as long as there are people who want to tell stories and there are people who want to hear them.

  Kevin Spacey

  Simple, Long, People

  Source: www.skyword.com

• The greatest sound in the theater is silence.

  Kevin Spacey

  Silence, Sound, Theater

  Source: www.skyword.com

• When you know you have 1,000 people sitting on the edge of their seats in silence because of a shift that just happened on stage, there is no better feeling.

  Kevin Spacey

  People, Silence, Feelings

  Source: www.skyword.com

• You must find a way to express your ideas and compel your audience to react through the idea itself, and then figuring out what the best representative of that idea may be, and bringing it to life.

  Kevin Spacey

  Ideas, May, Way

  Source: www.skyword.com

• You've got to trust the ground you're standing on and the work you've done in telling your story. The goal should be to bring those thousands of people - viewers - together and make them one. When you feel that happening, it's usually in silence, not applause or laughter.

  Kevin Spacey

  Laughter, People, Goal

  Source: www.skyword.com

• My job is to interpret. I'm an interpreter. I can add things and bring unique qualities to the role that the writer may not have thought of, but someone else created the fundamental idea.

  Kevin Spacey

  Jobs, Unique, Ideas

  Source: www.skyword.com

• 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

• My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.

  Kevin Spacey

  Jobs, Writing, Ideas

  Source: www.skyword.com