A. Kevin Quotes

People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one.

I never have liked detective dramas. I try to watch all of them to see what's going on, but I don't like them.

I wanted to be a stage actor but I got stuck on television. It took a couple of years to get used to.

The great players have a set of golf clubs in their feet

Everyone who is inside of an expanding bubble can't imagine another world where the bubble collapses on them. It's unimaginable because they haven't lived through it.

For venture capital, one of the original principles is people you want to invest in are people who've done it before with someone else's money. Not people who've just came out of business school.

I get paid to play football, not to sit on the bench, I don't enjoy that. Over the years loads of players have been very happy to do that and pick up their money. That used to really wind me up.

In many ways Roy Keane is bigger than One Direction.

If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesnt that show an incredible attention span?

When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club.

England was never my home. I had a home there but Dublin is my home so leaving Ireland was the hardest thing I had to do.

I wish people would take more care of the countryside.

The 24 Hour Plays is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.

I just want it to be better, I just want to be better, but this is very encouraging.

Theres nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to.

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.

You learn every single day when youre running a company. You learn as you go.

Im able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie.

I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it.

Im attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.

Theres no doubt that some of the greatest films ever made have come from the theater. Its all a matter of finding a way to make the theater experience watchable on film.

Look, at the end of the day people have to respect people's differences. I am different than some people would like me to be.

Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.

Whether thats positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.

In film, movies schedules are based on three things: actors availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place youre going to film in.

The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other.

What I like about Britain is that I can live a normal life here.

The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty.

Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.

As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments.

I guess Ive been training in the theater for as long as I can remember.

I always look toward teens on Instagram to really understand what's going on. For some reason, when you're a teen, you just understand the world better than anyone else.

When you know you have 1,000 people sitting on the edge of their seats in silence because of a shift that just happened on stage, there is no better feeling.

The most important definition of an actor, the job of the actor, is to serve the writer, not yourself. Way too many actors serve themselves.

Politics and acting are very closely tied. The job is to convince.

Gaming is going into storytelling. It was a new audience.

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 think that acting is a very humanizing profession.

Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works

I love producing, I love bringing things together.

We have to start listening to nature now.

Clean, sustainable energy is crucial and cannot wait.

Nature's message is clear: we can't keep doing what we're doing now.

There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or the Cleopatras that we've seen on stage.

We're just taking people and shifting them from taking photos anyway to taking them on Instagram.

I find drinking really helps.

I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded.

Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.

Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.

I dont categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I dont judge; I just play them.