Top 100 Quotes About Kevin Spacey
#1. David Fincher's work has all been incredibly well-received on Netflix, and Kevin Spacey's films have all worked on Netflix.
Ted Sarandos
#2. I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.
Rachel Stevens
#3. I really like the Doors. I like Kevin Spacey, Bruce Springsteen, Will Farrell, Reggie Watts, Tina Turner, who is also very hot, Tracy Chapman. Beethoven.
Flula Borg
#4. I wasn't trying to do a play or do what Kevin Spacey did. I was trying to do my own thing.
Kiefer Sutherland
#5. I called Kevin Spacey one day about something else, but he didnt say to me calm down, like The New York Times said. Because I was not deranged.
Gabriel Byrne
#6. I love the simplicity of Kevin Spacey's work. He really does a subtle interpretation of every character, and that's kind of my style of acting when it comes to dramatic roles.
Devon Bostick
#7. Odds are you're going to like this lively spin on the true story of six MIT mathletes who broke the Vegas Bank. It's a kick to watch Kevin Spacey and a gifted young cast use smarts to deal audiences a winning hand.
Peter Travers
#8. I'd love to work with Sean Penn or Kevin Spacey.
Devon Bostick
#9. Klain had suffered a heartbreaking defeat. But it had led to his being played by Kevin Spacey in the HBO movie Recount, which made him semi-hemi-demi-famous. Klain delivered a frank
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#10. I don't really write with living actors in mind. I guess I write for dead actors. I'll think of like, you know, Burt Lancaster would be good in this part, and so on. With 'L.A. Confidential,' it was like, 'Wouldn't it be cool if Dean Martin played the Kevin Spacey part?'
Brian Helgeland
#11. I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
Billy Eichner
#12. People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.
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#13. The audience wants control. They want freedom.
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#14. I always thought that, in a way, you want your Superman to be a total unknown.
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#15. I'm used to people thinking I'm nuts. And you know what? I kind of love it.
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#16. I often make the analogy with tennis. Every match the rules are the same, but no game is ever the same. Theatre is like that. Every time is different.
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#17. I've never done a movie that's shot more than 40 days because I just don't do those kinds of films.
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#18. Sometimes it's the crazy people who turn out to be not so crazy.
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#19. When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.
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#20. Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.
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#21. I guess I've been training in the theater for as long as I can remember.
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#22. My admiration for 'Mary Tyler Moore' is very, very big because they went out on top.
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#23. In film, movies' schedules are based on three things: actors' availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place you're going to film in.
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#24. I'm not a writer. I marvel at writing. I am sometimes absolutely astounded when I read something and I think how in the world did that man or that woman sit down at a typewriter, a computer or a pen and an ink well, and seemingly have nothing come between their heart and that pen.
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#25. People don't tend to hassle me because when I've got a hat on, I look like a banker. I'm just a plain guy.
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#26. I'm attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.
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#27. No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story.
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#28. Sometimes I'll be flipping through the channels and I'll see a movie I'm in. And I'll probably stop and think, 'Sure, I'll watch this.'
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#29. I think people love it when anybody acts bad; it's not particular to me.
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#30. My job consists of basically masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring to the men's room so I can jerk off while I fantasize about a life that doesn't so closely resemble Hell.
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#31. You've got to trust the ground you're standing on and the work you've done in telling your story. The goal should be to bring those thousands of people - viewers - together and make them one. When you feel that happening, it's usually in silence, not applause or laughter.
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#32. I don't know who Keyser Soze is, but whoever he is, he is going to get gloriously drunk tonight.
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#33. I was terrible in my first play. After that experience, I had to face that I wasn't good enough to play with the big boys. I had to go away and learn, so I worked in regional theater for three years. I even understudied at the Kennedy Center.
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#34. 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.
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#35. I accept the fact that some things don't go the way you hope.
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#37. One of the tasks that any artistic director has is, you're trying to bring elements together that will work. The truth is that you could bring all the best talents in the world together and produce a big turkey.
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#38. With every job, you should have something to lose, something to gain, something to learn.
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#39. I don't play villainy. I wouldn't even know how to play it.
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#40. Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.
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#41. Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.
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#42. I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.
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#43. 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!
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#44. Secret Cinema has created a new way of experiencing film. The fusion of film and theatre allows for a much more powerful experience and adds an incredibly unique dimension for the audience. It certainly did for me. I was blown away
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#45. My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.
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#46. 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.
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#47. I've never heard of a situation where, because somebody had a particular political belief, they didn't get a part. I think it's a bit of a myth.
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#48. I love producing, I love bringing things together.
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#49. I've done big studio films and the big studio films I've done, I've tried to do the interesting ones and the ones where I could live with myself in the morning.
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#50. Politics and acting are very closely tied. The job is to convince.
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#51. Wanting people to listen, you can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you'll notice you've got their strict attention.
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#52. I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity; I'd rather do my work and go home.
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#53. What I like about Britain is that I can live a normal life here.
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#54. I'm not a writer, and I don't want there to be any mistake about that.
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#55. 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.
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#57. The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors' theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.
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#58. It's the kind of democratization of the Internet that has led to the breaking down of barriers into the creative arts.
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#59. You can't turn a "no" to a "yes" without a "maybe" in between.
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#60. What's my favourite book? It changes all the time.
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#61. What I do is interpret, not create. I may add elements and do something different. That is what is so incredible about theatre. Why do we love it that there are nine Hamletsor six King Lears over two years? We love to watch a different actor attack the same material.
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#62. I have done films where we all thought the director didn't know what he was doing and it is going to be a gobble gobble turkey. And you go and watch it and it is great.
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#63. Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and it's a brand new audience for me.
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#64. Let's let people live their lives and do it the way they want to do it,
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#65. I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.
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#66. I believe if you go to a movie theatre, and you see something you think is incredible, if you walk out of the theatre and there was a bin in the lobby of DVDs of the film you just watched, you would buy four of them - one for you and three for your friends.
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#67. I suppose the most important thing is to stay interested. It's very easy in life if you get to a place where you're successful to hit the same groove on the record player over and over again because it's safe.
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#68. I became a bit of a jerk. A kind of a nasty jerk.
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#69. What hasn't surprised me is that audiences, as we found starting with box sets, want control, to decide how they watch it. Appointment viewing is slowly being put slightly behind.
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#70. I've been around politics a long time. I've seen it at its best and its worst, been at so many events, listened to private conversations versus public speaking, understood the game of it, and in many ways the theatrics.
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#71. Am I arrogant? I've been arrogant, sure; everybody's been arrogant.
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#72. 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?
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#73. It's not easy to sustain a long career, and sometimes I don't even think about how long I've been doing it.
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#74. There are two things that have been happening over the last few decades in my opinion. First, there have been unbelievable, remarkable, pioneering advances in technology and, second, an equal amount of evolution in creativity. These two shifts are meeting at an intersection.
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#75. If there is one thing I object to, it's actors talking about how tough their jobs are.
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#76. I have to remember if I'm at some charitable event where kids are ... I try to remember don't swear in front of the kids!
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#77. I am different than some people would like me to be. I just don't buy into that the personal can be political.
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#78. I want to bring theatre to a new generation, using the tools available to us, including taking it out to them on film and with new technology, but that is just so they can discover theatre. I want them to come in and sit in a theatre. This is the way to plant seeds.
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#79. At the end of the day, people have to respect people's differences. I am different than some people would like me to be.
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#80. You are not just, "This is the way I play it every night." You are constantly finding new ways in, new attacks, "I want to try it this way. Maybe this scene is affecting that scene. I want to attack this scene differently."
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#81. 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.
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#82. I've been intrigued by politics my whole life. And, yes, I am very close to the Clintons. I was a Hillary person until I was an Obama person. And she was a Hillary person, too, until she was an Obama one, evidently.
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#83. Whether it's 'Veep' or 'Homeland' or 'The West Wing' - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.
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#84. What a martyr craves more than anything is a sword to fall on, so you sharpen the blade and hold it at just the right angle.
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#85. Partisan rancour and party politics and ideology have got in the way of compromise - and compromise is the only thing that has ever made politics successful.
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#86. 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.
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#87. It's Hard to Stay Mad When There's So Much Beauty in the World
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#88. I think it is just a function of the fact that I moved around so much as a child that I learnt early on to make every place my home.
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#89. One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.
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#90. It's the details and the human element that makes 'Recount' entertaining. Even though we know how the election ends, it plays like a thriller. It's also funny.
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#91. The audience, the place you're in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.
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#92. Whether that's positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.
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#94. The less you know about me, the easier it is to convince you that I am that character on screen.
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#95. No one should ever feel sorry for me. I've been treated very well for the most part.
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#96. Bobby Darin was one of the first to take black musicians on the road with his band, and there were places that didn't want him to play, and he stood up to it.
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#97. Over the years, I've spent a lot of time in Washington. It's a great theater town.
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#98. I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome my dogs.
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#99. I am so leading the life that I want and wanted and dreamed of as a kid. I'm trying very hard not to abuse it or take advantage of it.
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#100. President Obama will go down as having passed some of the most historic bills in the history of this country.
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