Kevin Spacey People Quotations

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

I think that when you put yourself, as actors have to do, in other people's shoes, when you have to put on the costume that someone else has worn in their life, it gets much, much harder to be prejudiced against them and even to be - to not try to look at the world in a sense of "I'm not going to judge somebody. I'm going to try to understand who they are and what they're about."

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.

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.

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.

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

I think people love it when anybody acts bad; its not particular to me.

I cotton to the idea that people are much closer to being flawed; they have problems and dont always make the right choices.

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 terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.

Let’s let people live their lives and do it the way they want to do it,

If I'm sick of me, I can only imagine how other people feel.

Look, 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 have long been a supporter of The Princes Trust, and so when American Express asked me to launch Amex Be Inspired and help young people build their confidence and fulfil their potential, I was delighted to get involved.

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

Sometimes its the crazy people who turn out to be not so crazy.

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

Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.

Wanting people to listen, you can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you'll notice you've got their strict attention.

For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.

People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want.

There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor or actress, by the end, theyve forgotten that, and they leave going, Wow - what an amazing play.

Our job, you know, in the entertainment profession is to try to illuminate and show people all sides of humanity, and it doesn't just mean that you can only do movies that are only about the good parts of us. You have to be able to eliminate the bad parts.

There does seem to be in the U.S. now an ideology and an entrenchment that has stopped people doing what they are hired to do, which is govern rather than run for office the whole time.

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.

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

Maybe there are people who are gamers who haven't seen movies I have made, or the movies I have made have made no impression on them at all.

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.

I have long been a supporter of The Prince's Trust, and so when American Express asked me to launch 'Amex Be Inspired' and help young people build their confidence and fulfil their potential, I was delighted to get involved.

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.

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.

People think that direct address was invented by Ferris Bueller, but in fact, it wasn't. It was invented by Shakespeare.

People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.

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.

Whether it's 'Veep' or 'Homeland' or 'The West Wing' - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.

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.

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 am different than some people would like me to be. I just don't buy into that the personal can be political.

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.

I'm used to people thinking I'm nuts. And you know what? I kind of love it.

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.

You can almost hear people saying, 'We're going to make a movie about an election' and 'We're going to make a movie about a lobbyist.' You can hear the yawning start across the nation.

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.

makes people think ... and have a healthy debate and an open debate, rather than being so fiercely on one side or the other.

I don't think that, 18 months in, anyone needs to apologize for having done a program that has brought 425,000 people into the theater. We must be doing something right even though 11 or 12 people who write for newspapers don't particularly like what we've done.

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box

We've learned the lesson that the music industry didn't learn: 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.