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
My mother always, always, always thought that I was going to be famous. Thought that I was going to win Oscars. In fact, I believe I accepted the Oscar as a ketchup bottle many a time in front of my mother in the kitchen. 'I'd like to thank the Academy,' I said with a ketchup bottle.
Talent is one thing, it is how you nurture and develop it, and never walk away from it. You can be rich, successful, you win awards, but it can always be better.
Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.
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.
You can't win a marathon without putting some bandaids on your nipples!
Over the years, I've spent a lot of time in Washington. It's a great theater town.
Kids aren't growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.
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.
I think it is just a function of the fact that I moved around so much as a child that I learnt early on to make every place my home.
I would love to do much more singing; it's just one of those things where I can't quite describe what it feels like when you're standing in front of a forty piece orchestra, and there's nothing between you and an audience but a microphone. It's like strapping yourself to a locomotive, and I love it.
You just play what a writer writes, in terms of what a character chooses to do and how a character chooses to deal with their various relationships.
'The 24 Hour Plays' is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.
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.
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.