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
If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesn't that show an incredible attention span?
I'll tell you one thing. I've never heard a director saying that the dailies suck.
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'm attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.
If you're not concerned about maintaining an image, you can pursue roads that another actor might not take.
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.
I felt that I shouldn't be an actor who just makes movie after movie in a quest for prestige and money.
I'm not going to make general comments about the British press.
Theatre is organic, film is not. Theatre you come every day and you work with a group of people and you're are all up for it and you all get to do the whole thing every night, be it two hours or three hours. In film you work in two or three minute bits and it's never in chronological order and then someone takes that away and makes it look like it all happened, or that you gave that performance.
You risk working with this director, you risk making this movie, you risk working with another actor you don't know. It makes your heart beat faster. And it keeps you interested.
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.
People sometimes say, "Isn't it boring, isn't it always the same? It's the same lines." I go, "Well, do you play tennis? Because that's the best analogy I can give." If you go out eight times and play tennis eight times this week, yeah it's the same rules but it's a different game every time you're out on that court.And that's the best analogy I can come up with the theater.
Politics and acting are very closely tied. The job is to convince.