Kevin Spacey Quotes

I saw 'Othello' with Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones.

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.

'Othello' was my first Shakespearean discovery. I was obsessed with drama at school, and I studied the play for my English GCSE. Desdemona is the part that everyone wants, but Iago's wife Emilia is the one I've always been drawn to.

I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home to me living 100 years later in New York City. I'm drawn to him because of his way with characters and their relationships with each other.

I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.

I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.

I was in a production of 'Macbeth.'

I did 'Love's Labour's Lost' in the theater and found it to be riotously funny.

It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.

I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.

Give people control of the media and they will use it. Don’t give them control and you will lose it.

In order to govern you have to feed the news cycle

The primary purpose of the media is to mobilize support for the controlling interests.

Owning media is power. That’s the way it is.

If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

I would love to do Shakespeare, either onstage or on film.

I played Shylock in my school's staging of 'Merchant of Venice.'

I'd really like to play Lady Macbeth.

I did play a romantic part once - Orsino in 'Twelfth Night.'

Politics has become show biz.

'Game of Thrones' is fundamentally based on a Machiavellian, almost Jacobean, idea of power and intrigue.

The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.

These books ain't window dressing. I think Machiavelli's the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a manipulative person. Everything he accomplished he did by kissin' ass.

The media—stenographers to power.

To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required for a clear view of the monstrous drama. The will-to-power operating under a pure democratic disguise has finished off its masterpiece so well that the object's sense of freedom is actually flattered by the most thorough-going enslavement that has ever existed.