Quotes from Kevin Spacey

The control is shifting because of the democratisation of the internet. My industry is very good at building walls to stop people getting in.

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

Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.

While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a childs imagination.

If you go out eight times and play tennis eight times this week, yeah, it's the same rules, but it's a different game every time you're out on that court. You're working on a different part of your game every time you're out on that court; your partner's working on a different part of their game, and the act of being watched changes it.

I believe if you go to a movie theatre, and you see something you think is incredible, if you walk out of the theatre and there was a bin in the lobby of DVDs of the film you just watched, you would buy four of them - one for you and three for your friends.

I actually have a number of lovely watches from the International Watch Company.

If you're watching a film on your television, is it no longer a film because you're not watching it in a theatre? If you watch a TV show on your iPad, is it no longer a TV show? The device and the length are irrelevant; the labels are useless, except perhaps to agents and managers and lawyers, who use these labels to conduct business deals.

People don't tend to hassle me because when I've got a hat on, I look like a banker. I'm just a plain guy.

I am now a commander of the British Empire.

I'm not going to make general comments about the British press.

It's extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.

Film is very condensed.

I never wanted to go to the Old Vic and not have it survive long after I was gone. It's not about me; it's about that theater. And the more that it's able to grow and do everything it should do without me, then I've done my job.

It's not easy to sustain a long career, and sometimes I don't even think about how long I've been doing it.

I have to remember if I'm at some charitable event where kids are... I try to remember don't swear in front of the kids!

I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don't judge; I just play them.

It's always the big question in our lives if you have a lot of success. What do you do with it? Buy more houses, buy more cars, buy more stuff, be wealthy and distant and unengaged? Or do you take all that good fortune that has come towards you and spread the love, do something with it?

It's interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.

The less you know about me, the easier it is to convince you that I am that character on screen.

I am so leading the life that I want and wanted and dreamed of as a kid. I'm trying very hard not to abuse it or take advantage of it.

I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded.

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.

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.