A. Kevin Quotes

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.

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.

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

Fundamentally, I like to accomplish things.

It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished.

While data can only tell you what has happened in the past, it can in some ways give you a sense of what might be of interest to an audience in the future.

I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.

Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.

If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.

People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want.

Im not revolted by Washington.

Anytime someone can beat the acting out of someone else, I think its a wonderful thing.

I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. Ive got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.

I think people love it when anybody acts bad; its not particular to me.

Its interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.

Its extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.

Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.

Meeting the person you are going to be playing is very unique.

Kids arent growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.

London is a very energising place to be.

Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and its a brand new audience for me.

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 someone who's led my life trying to get publicity; I'd rather do my work and go home.

I cotton to the idea that people are much closer to being flawed; they have problems and dont always make the right choices.

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.

I actually have a number of lovely watches from the International Watch Company.

I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.

As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.

Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where youre both championing a character and youre revolted by them.

Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow... Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.

Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.

And I certainly won't lay out areas of my life that I think are just private.

I never doubted at all. If you ever doubt then you are in trouble. I never thought: 'I should do this or that in case I don't make it.' I never had a back-up plan.

I am not an image. I am a human being.

Essentially, your voice is an instrument; its a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have to work it.

I couldnt imagine something asking as much of me as House Of Cards. Its a great warm-up for coming back to the screen.

I dont even think in terms of ambition.

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

As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

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 remember meeting the likes of Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart for the first time and being completely starstruck.

Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.

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

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

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

I find drinking really helps.

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.

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

Clean, sustainable energy is crucial and cannot wait.