Quotes from Kevin Spacey

I don't watch rugby.

Living in London has become incredible. I suppose it's easy to love where you live if you love what you're doing. But this is not just a visit: it's my home.

If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.

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.

I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.

People say, 'If you open a movie online at the same time as in movie theatres, no one is going to go to the movies.' That's just not true. People love to go out and have a shared experience; they always will.

Life's all about perceptions.

'The 24 Hour Plays' is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.

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

I'll tell you one thing. I've never heard a director saying that the dailies suck.

Both 'Consenting Adults' and 'Glengarry Glen Ross' revolve around the economic stresses of the '90s. They are about what people do when they're pushed against that wall, and how they're manipulated. They are both morality tales, though in very different genres.

If you wanna compete, you've got to get into the original content game.

There's nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to.

I couldn't imagine something asking as much of me as 'House Of Cards.' It's a great warm-up for coming back to the screen.

I'm attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.

I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?

Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?

I'm always taken aback by things that are successful that I think are just crap, and then I'm completely surprised when things I do end up being successful because you walk into things and you never know... It's just really remarkable.

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.

When I was young, I learned very early on that I could make my mother laugh. And that was one of the greatest sounds I ever heard.

My mother was sarcastic and delightful and, trust me, quite remarkable.

Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.

We have to start listening to nature now.

There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose.