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As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.
Kids arent growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.
If you're lucky enough to do well, it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.
If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.
The less you know about me the easier it is to convince you that I'm the character on screen.
When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.
I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity; I'd rather do my work and go home.
People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.
We're going to see a lot of companies that have been portals of entertainment become producers.
You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.
If we don't reach out to make theatre affordable to the young generation, we will lose them all.
I don't know who Keyser Soze is, but whoever he is, he is going to get gloriously drunk tonight.
The less you know about me, the easier it is to convince you that I am that character on screen.
I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.
The process of doing a play is an organic one and the process of doing a film is totally un-organic.
The process of doing a play is an organic one, and the process of doing a film is totally inorganic.
I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.
Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to.
Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions you'd rather not know the answers to.
I felt that I shouldn't be an actor who just makes movie after movie in a quest for prestige and money.
If you're lucky enough to have done well, then it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.
Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.
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.
If youre not concerned about maintaining an image, you can pursue roads that another actor might not take.
Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?
If you're not concerned about maintaining an image, you can pursue roads that another actor might not take.
It's not easy to sustain a long career, and sometimes I don't even think about how long I've been doing it.
I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome my dogs.
As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments.
After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.
President Obama will go down as having passed some of the most historic bills in the history of this country.
Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.
Its a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.
Theres nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to.
I've taken the experiences that I've had in the theatre and applied them to film and television and now games.
I am different than some people would like me to be. I just don't buy into that the personal can be political.
There's nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to.
If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesnt that show an incredible attention span?
It's a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.
If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesn't that show an incredible attention span?
For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.
Some politicians that I've seen have been brilliant with the public. They almost speak with the skill of an actor.
I remember meeting the likes of Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart for the first time and being completely starstruck.
Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and its a brand new audience for me.
People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.
Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where youre both championing a character and youre revolted by them.
Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and it's a brand new audience for me.
The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.
Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where you're both championing a character and you're revolted by them.
I couldnt imagine something asking as much of me as House Of Cards. Its a great warm-up for coming back to the screen.