Anyone with a internet connection and an idea can develop an audience Kevin Spacey More Quotes by Kevin Spacey More Quotes From Kevin Spacey You are not just, "This is the way I play it every night." You are constantly finding new ways in, new attacks, "I want to try it this way. Maybe this scene is affecting that scene. I want to attack this scene differently." Kevin Spacey play trying night Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected. Kevin Spacey relationship character years My job consists of basically masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring to the men's room so I can jerk off while I fantasize about a life that doesn't so closely resemble Hell. Kevin Spacey jobs men rooms Talent is only interesting if it's challenged. Kevin Spacey talent ifs interesting I think that when you put yourself, as actors have to do, in other people's shoes, when you have to put on the costume that someone else has worn in their life, it gets much, much harder to be prejudiced against them and even to be - to not try to look at the world in a sense of "I'm not going to judge somebody. I'm going to try to understand who they are and what they're about." Kevin Spacey shoes people thinking The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall. Kevin Spacey acting thousand ideas 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. Kevin Spacey play character interesting The process of doing a play is an organic one and the process of doing a film is totally un-organic. Kevin Spacey film process play I can't imagine that anyone in Hollywood is sitting around trying to decide what actor is good or right or qualified for a role and is being denied a role because of their political views. I don't think that's the way Hollywood works. We're not living in an era of blacklisting. Kevin Spacey political views thinking The audience has spoken. They want stories. They’re dying for them. They’re rooting for us to give the right thing. And they will talk about it, binge on it, carry it with them on the bus and to the hairdresser, force it on their friends, tweet, blog, Facebook, make fan pages, silly GIFs, and god knows what else about it.. Kevin Spacey dying silly giving Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to. Kevin Spacey actors answers sometimes The audience, the place youre in, has everything to do with how your performance goes. Kevin Spacey audience performances For kids growing up now, there's no difference watching 'Avatar' on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching 'Game of Thrones' on their computer. It's all content. It's just story. Kevin Spacey growing-up games kids To look in the eyes of audiences and see the kind of naughty glee that they got with being on the inside, the audience becomes your co-conspirators. Kevin Spacey glee naughty eye I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film. Kevin Spacey ugly done character Mediocrity is the elephant in the room. Kevin Spacey mediocrity elephants rooms Fortunately for me, I don't come from the school where you only measure success by how much money something makes or whether it has a big box-office weekend. I measure it by how much people actually participate in the process. Kevin Spacey weekend office school Sometimes you walk away from playing somebody and you think, "Wow that was far as from my own experience as I can possibly be." And sometimes you walk away thinking, "Wow. There are qualities in that character that I didn't realize I had." And those can be both interesting and uncomfortable. Kevin Spacey character interesting thinking Theatre is alive and it is now, and then it's gone. Kevin Spacey theatre alive gone There are two things that have been happening over the last few decades in my opinion. First, there have been unbelievable, remarkable, pioneering advances in technology and, second, an equal amount of evolution in creativity. These two shifts are meeting at an intersection. Kevin Spacey creativity technology two
