“Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and its a brand new audience for me.” TryingCharacterGamesTermAudienceStorytellingBrandsAdvancingBrand New Author:Kevin Spacey
“You are not just, "This is the way I play it every night." You are constantly finding new ways in, new attacks, "I want to try it this way. Maybe this scene is affecting that scene. I want to attack this scene differently."” WayWantTryingPlayNightSceneFindingsEvery NightNew Ways Author:Kevin Spacey
“I can't imagine that anyone in Hollywood is sitting around trying to decide what actor is good or right or qualified for a role and is being denied a role because of their political views. I don't think that's the way Hollywood works. We're not living in an era of blacklisting.” ThinkingWayTryingI CanPoliticalActorsViewsRolesImagineSittingHollywoodErasDeniedImagine ThatQualifiedSitting AroundPolitical View Author:Kevin Spacey
“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.” PeopleKnowsTryingMeanShowsAbleJobsHumanitySidesEntertainmentProfession Author:Kevin Spacey
“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."” PeopleThinkingWorldTryingLooksActorsJudgingHarderShoesWornCostumes Author:Kevin Spacey
“I can't judge the characters I play, because it's for the audience to do. What I can try to do is to understand and embody what were they going through? How did they make the decisions they made? That to me is a more interesting way to approach something, rather than saying this person is a villain and that person is this and - because it's not very interesting to play that anyway.” WayTryingPersonsMadeI CanPlayCharacterDecisionInterestingAudienceJudgingApproachVillainVery InterestingInteresting Ways Author:Kevin Spacey
“It's the way I feel about acting. That we are given clues by a writer about someone's essence or persona and it's our job to try to figure out which of those clues are true, which of clues we decide to follow and which of those clues we think are red herrings, or only in the way another character thinks of that character.” ThinkingWayFeelsTryingCharacterJobsGivenActingFiguresRedEssenceCluePersonaHerringRed Herrings Author:Kevin Spacey
“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.” TryingYearsCharacterWould BeAudienceRelationshipLowsProtectedProfile Author:Kevin Spacey
“I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity; I'd rather do my work and go home.” TryingHomePublicity Author:Kevin Spacey
“To me, getting up every single night and trying to reach out to an audience, and trying to dig deeper and further in the play to serve the writer and to understand yourself in that context is how you continue to grow and learn.” TryingPlayNightGrowsAudienceDeeperPerformingReach OutDig Deep Author:Kevin Spacey
“If you have done well in whatever business you are in, it is your duty to send the elevator back down and try to help bring up the next generation of undiscovered talent.” IfsTryingWellsDoneHelpingNextGenerationsTalentDutyDown AndNext GenerationElevators Author:Kevin Spacey
“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.” PeopleKnowsWantTryingKindBusinessPressesConvinceNone Of Your Business Author:Kevin Spacey
