Quotes from Kevin Spacey

If you're lucky enough to do well, it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.

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. Well, some will still steal it, but I think we can take a bite out of piracy.

I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.

I don't live a lie. You have to understand that people who choose not to discuss their personal lives are not living a lie. That is a presumption that people jump to.

Whether that's positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.

At the end of the day, people have to respect people's differences. I am different than some people would like me to be.

I might have lived in England for the last several years, but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.

I want to do better. I want to produce better stories. I want to do better plays.

As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.

The more shows that are produced, the more writers are hired, producers are hired, actors are hired, directors are hired, it means the more people will get employed. It's better for the economy. It's a fantastic thing.

We're going to see a lot of companies that have been portals of entertainment become producers.

A British director directed 'American Beauty,' an important film about American life, and it didn't matter. What only mattered was everyone's sensibility.

I have never played a game in my life.

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.

I've taken the experiences that I've had in the theatre and applied them to film and television and now games.

Why is 'Game of Thrones' the most pirated show in the history of TV? Because people can't get it fast enough, that's why.

Working in film tends to isolate actors - it's your close-up; it's all about you.

I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.

If you're lucky enough to have done well, then it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.

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

If you're not concerned about maintaining an image, you can pursue roads that another actor might not take.

I cotton to the idea that people are much closer to being flawed; they have problems and don't always make the right choices.