A. Kevin Quotes

I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I'll never be thin. Let's be honest.

I'd see movies, comedies, and I loved 'Animal House', I loved all the John Hughes stuff, but I never saw me and my friends totally represented.

Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.

It takes nothing to encourage an artist.

Is man, indeed, a walrus at heart?

In Hollywood you kind of fail upwards

There's a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are.

Whenever I'm not shooting, I'm in the editing room with my footage. While the crew is taking 15 minutes to an hour to set up the next shot, I'm behind the Avid, putting the flick together.

It's like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you've won.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment.

T-shirts and long pants make me easier to find in a crowd, but also easy to disappear in a crowd because if I am wearing this and suddenly I am not, it's like a Harry Potter invisibility cloak.

For years, my job was to make the movie inexpensively. And I could bring it in. What I can't control are the costs of marketing.

I made a deal with myself that whenever I smoke weed, I have to be doing something productive: writing, recording, cutting a podcast, editing, etc.

There was never any down side to casting friends over professionals. It was always fun seeing folks who never performed before stretching their wings.

I really would love to play a hannibal lector or PSYCO type character.

The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it.

If you believe in God you get to the point where (you feel) "Yeah, you know what, God forgave my sins but I still have to forgive myself."

People can be good, people can be generous, people can be helpful. People can help those who are in need when they need it.

Hollywood likes to put out their own message out a lot of times, and that message isn't the best one for everyone.

There are many things clogging the television waves. You've got to fight for every bit of television households you can get.

I like doing movies that have good messages and have good moral backgrounds to them and things like that - and send out positive messages.

A man can convince anyone hes someone else but never himself.

Sometimes its the crazy people who turn out to be not so crazy.

No one should ever feel sorry for me. Ive been treated very well for the most part.

Pushing the boundaries of what is expected of you is important to me.

You must find a way to express your ideas and compel your audience to react through the idea itself, and then figuring out what the best representative of that idea may be, and bringing it to life.

For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.

If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.

I accept the fact that some things dont go the way you hope.

The movies are not my first priority - the theater is.

One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.

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.

If you have done well in whatever business you are in, it is your duty to send the elevator back down and try to help bring up the next generation of undiscovered talent.

If you wanna compete, youve got to get into the original content game.

It is not about whether you are an executive, a studio or a network. If you have a story or an idea you can build a following for it.

If it were not for people who stepped forward and gave me opportunities at a time when I had not proved myself at all, believe me, I would not have a career.

Its the details and the human element that makes Recount entertaining. Even though we know how the election ends, it plays like a thriller. Its also funny.

I think that there is no doubt that every experience you have in your life, whether it's playing a character or something else, you bring that to the work.

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.

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.

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.

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