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
I was on a couple of scholarships. I had a job in the school administrative office. I had a job as a hat-check boy in a restaurant. I had another job as an assistant to a casting director. It took a lot to get myself enough money to put myself through Juilliard.
I'll tell you one thing. I've never heard a director saying that the dailies suck.
I have wanted to have children. I do want to have children.
I'm attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.
I have to remember if I'm at some charitable event where kids are... I try to remember don't swear in front of the kids!
I never wanted to go to the Old Vic and not have it survive long after I was gone. It's not about me; it's about that theater. And the more that it's able to grow and do everything it should do without me, then I've done my job.
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.
I didn't do this movie because I thought it was going to be pro or con or took a stand and sort of cram down people's throats one point of view.
In film, movies' schedules are based on three things: actors' availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place you're going to film in.
I felt that I shouldn't be an actor who just makes movie after movie in a quest for prestige and money.
You try to do the best work that you can do to give audiences something that maybe they haven't seen before and keep challenging yourself.
It's a journey towards truthfulness, towards reality. I think that's a wonderful challenge for Kevin Spacey - he's a great actor and what he has demonstrated on film many times is a wonderful truthfulness.
It's a remarkable play, very funny and provocative and challenging, and to have a new work is a double whammy for us,
It's not easy to sustain a long career, and sometimes I don't even think about how long I've been doing it.