Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey Fowler, better known by his stage name Kevin Spacey, is an American actor, film director, producer, singer and comedian who has resided in the United Kingdom since 2003. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s before obtaining supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclaim in the early 1990s that culminated in his first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the neo-noir crime thriller The Usual Suspects, and an Academy Award...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth26 July 1959
CitySouth Orange, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
Its interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.
The audience, the place youre in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.
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.
Theres nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to.
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.
I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie.
Theres no doubt that some of the greatest films ever made have come from the theater. Its all a matter of finding a way to make the theater experience watchable on film.
One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.
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 am not an image. I am a human being.
Its extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.
Kids arent growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.
It is not about whether you are an executive, a studio or a network. If you have a story or an idea you can build a following for it.
London is a very energising place to be.