Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?
And I certainly won't lay out areas of my life that I think are just private.
As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments.
But I feel that I have a responsibility to help the film and I have relations with the studio and with those who put up the money so that I can tell a story that I believe in.
Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.
For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be.
I don't see myself as a movie star, but a character actor, and that's what I've always been. No matter what happens outside of this odd cottage industry that I have nothing to do with, I will always be that, and as long as I focus on that, I'll let others say what they need to say.
I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.
I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.
I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don't win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie.
I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.
I open myself up every time I walk on screen and give you everything that I am. There are parts of me that are in every movie that I've done. That to me is what my job is.
I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.
I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.
I'm lucky if I find one movie a year that's worth doing, and when I do find one, it usually only takes 20-30 days to shoot.
I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.
I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity; I'd rather do my work and go home.
I'm now going to look for characters that are emotionally available and not manipulative and not dark, but who will be just as complex and just as interesting for me as an actor, and I hope for audiences as well. But that doesn't mean I'm going to go off and do really bad romantic comedies.
I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?
I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.
I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected.
If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!
It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.
It's been interesting for me to walk down this road. It's been wild and, in the case of Seven, it was frightening. But I now feel that I've gone as far as I can go in exploring that dark side without repeating myself or starting to lose credibility by just showing up and doing what people expect.
It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.
My life will change, because I want it to change; and also because this is something I'm committed to doing and that I believe my life has been leading towards.
Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.
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.
Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.
Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.
Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.
The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before.
We enjoy watching actors we know a lot about and who always turn in winning performances. But there are other kinds of actors who get into films, who don't look like movie stars, who bring perhaps a different quality you don't see much of these days. I think I'm probably one of those.
What I do as an actor is more important there, than what I'm doing in my living room.
You try to do the best work that you can do to give audiences something that maybe they haven't seen before and keep challenging yourself.
Kevin owns a black Jack Russell Terrier named Mini.
The film 'The Life Of David Gale', in which Kevin plays the leading role, scored 4 out of 5 stars, in the Dutch magazine 'TV/Film', October 2006.
Kevin Spacey has been great friends with (ex-president) Bill Clinton for years. Whenever Clinton is in London, he gives Spacey a ring to meet up with him. Spacey also makes an appearance in Clinton's short film, the comedy bit; "Clinton's last days in the White House"
As a kid, Kevin would often perform for his family, singing songs from his idol Bobby Darin. He would use a comb as his microphone and put up whole shows, including impressions. In 2004 he finally got to bring out his movie about Bobby Darin, in which he himself plays Darin. He also wrote, produced and directed the film. The songs in this film are all performed by Kevin Spacey, and in the same year, he came out with the Soundtrack CD, featuring 18 of his favorite Bobby Darin songs.
Did the narraration of "Look,Up in the Sky,it's Superman".Promoting the movie Superman Returns.
On the Tonight Show with Jay Leno,Kevin said that he teased actor Brandon Routh (Clark Kent in the new Superman film) by riding around in a golfcart with Kryptonite,a Superman doll being dragged by a rope,and the words "Kill Superman" on the side.
On Late Night with Conan O'Brien,he commented that it was an honor for him to work with Marlon Brando in the new movie.
The use of the name Spacey, while rumored to be a combination of Spencer Tracy's name, is actually his mother's maiden name.
In 1998, he was listed as one of Entertainment Weekly's 25 Best Actors.
He appeared on the "Daily Show", this appearance making him the first Academy Award winner to be on the show.
He owns a Labrador dog named Legacy.
In 2005,he appeared in the title role of Shakespeare's "Richard II" directed by Trevor Nunn in London.
Attended the Juilliard School in New York City,where he studied drama,between 1979 and 1981.
Supporter of London's Old Vic Theater,co-hosting fund-raiser for it in NYC,April 2002.
His idols are Spencer Tracy,Henry Fonda,James Stewart,Jason Robard,Jack Lemmon,and Al Pacino.
He has starred in the movie The Shipping News (2001) as .... Quoyle ... aka Noeuds et d?nouements (Canada: French title)
He has starred in Edison (2005) as .... Wallace ... aka Edison Force (USA: DVD title)
Robert Altman made his London theatrical debut in early 2006 for Spacey's Old Vic company directing Arthur Miller's play Resurrection Blues, Spacey is the Artistic Directory of the venerable London company and also acts in some of its productions, most famously in Shakespeare's Richard II.. Altman chose an eclectic cast for he Miller play, including Maxmillian Schell (qc), James Fox (who replaced John Wood before previews), and American movie actors Matthew Modine and Jane Adams. The English critics panned Resurrection Blues, partly due to the clash in acting styles of the disparate cast. Adams walked out after a matin?e on April 5, 2006, and was replaced by her understudy for subsequent performances. No explanation was given for her departure from the production. The play was scheduled to close a week early in mid-April due to poor ticket sales. Altman claimed after the poor debut of the play that he was not very familiar with the script, and didn't really understand the play. Critics said that his confusion obviously affected the cast, many of whom seemed not to understand the play, and some of whom seemed to have trouble remembering lines. While not an outright debacle, the play is another relative failure characterizing Spacey's troubled tenure as Old Vic chief.
On the 17th of April 2004, London - suffered a head injury after tripping over his dog while pursuing a young man who stole his cell phone. Initially, he reported that the injury was the result of a mugging, but later admitted the truth and stated that he was embarrassed by the situation.
He was awarded the 1998 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama) for Best Actor for his performance in The Iceman Cometh at the Almeida and at the Old Vic Theatres.
He went to Chatsworth High School in Los Angeles with Mare Winningham. During their senior year, Kevin played von Trapp and Mare played Maria in a school production of The Sound of Music. Upon hearing of their Oscar nominations in 1996, Winningham sent a telegram to Spacey saying: Captain von Trapp - congratulations on your nomination - Maria.
He as paid 225 pounds per week for appearing in the play The Iceman Cometh at the Almeida Theatre in London (1998).
He had auditioned for The Gong Show in 1978 and was rejected.
He is 5'11.
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