Kevin Spacey Quotes

Acting and performing is part of who I am.

When I'm doing a play like 'Betrayal,' I have to be careful not to get stimulation overload.

I don't know why, but I was really good in that first play.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

To play different characters on a TV show where you're working every day, playing multiple characters every day, it's so ridiculously intense.

As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them.

It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

It's just a very different process from maybe working one or two days a week doing one or two scenes a day versus sustaining a performance over two hours or so eight times a week.

Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.

When you do a play, you do it for a couple months, and it just gets in your bones. You can learn about somebody that way.

The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.

I love acting so much that I don't want to give that up.

So the mask was just really easy, I've got to be honest. And it was great actually because it really allowed you to get into the character a little bit more maybe than without it, if that makes sense.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

I have, I think to do a play a year is very good if you can afford the time and the energy because it's difficult to do, it's really the actors medium of course, because you're really out there and nobody's yelling cut so, yeah I have.

On stage, you've got dialogue you've learned. You've got a paying audience. It couldn't be better, you know?

There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.

Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.

The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself.

I've always enjoyed acting. When we were younger, my sisters and I would put on plays for our parents.