Quotes from Kevin Spacey

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

Where the gaming world is going - and certainly Activision proved it by hiring me - is being willing to push and bend and move in a new direction of actually capturing the character and storytelling.

I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. I've got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.

There are a lot of people out there who offer roles to actors because they'll elevate their movie to a place the movie would never reach.

When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.

I certainly identify with the role of mentor and, to some degree, maybe teacher. I do a lot of work with kids at the Old Vic.

The stigma that used to exist many years ago, that actors from film don't do television, seems to have disappeared. That camera doesn't know it's a TV camera... or even a streaming camera. It's just a camera.

The process of doing a play is an organic one, and the process of doing a film is totally inorganic.

I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don't win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie.

Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.

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

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.

Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.

Essentially, your voice is an instrument; its a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have to work it.

The fact is that HBO is doing the kind of films and the kind of stories that the movie industry used to do. You look at a lot of the specialty sections of studios that have gone under... and there's no doubt in my mind why filmmakers and screenwriters and actors are ending up at a place like HBO. They do it better than anybody.

I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage my ideas and energies.

I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.

If we don't reach out to make theatre affordable to the young generation, we will lose them all.

Am I arrogant? I've been arrogant, sure; everybody's been arrogant.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity I'd rather do my work and go home.

What I've certainly learned is that whenever I've said anything about real politics, I've come under attack. So it's best simply to play politics on television.

Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where you're both championing a character and you're revolted by them.

What hasn't surprised me is that audiences, as we found starting with box sets, want control, to decide how they watch it. Appointment viewing is slowly being put slightly behind.