Top 100 Spacey's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. David Fincher's work has all been incredibly well-received on Netflix, and Kevin Spacey's films have all worked on Netflix.
Ted Sarandos
#3. It's extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.
Kevin Spacey
#4. The story is everything, which means it's our job to tell better stories.
Kevin Spacey
#5. I'm always taken aback by things that are successful that I think are just crap, and then I'm completely surprised when things I do end up being successful because you walk into things and you never know ... It's just really remarkable.
Kevin Spacey
#6. If you're lucky enough to do well, it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.
Kevin Spacey
#7. It's interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.
Kevin Spacey
#8. It's much more interesting when you go to different places - make a left turn when nobody expects you to make a left turn, and make a right when nobody expects you to do that.
Kevin Spacey
#9. People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.
Kevin Spacey
#10. Essentially, your voice is an instrument; it's a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have to work it.
Kevin Spacey
#11. Meditation is not this kind of spacey stuff that makes it difficult to orient your life. If that's your experience of meditation, you're not meditating. You're tapping into the lower astral planes, which is not a healthy place for human beings to tap.
Frederick Lenz
#12. [Washington, DC] feels like you're watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don't believe them, I don't believe what they say, I don't think they're being absolutely sincere. I think it's performance art. And most of them are bad actors.
Kevin Spacey
#14. There's nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to.
Kevin Spacey
#15. I would love to do much more singing; it's just one of those things where I can't quite describe what it feels like when you're standing in front of a forty piece orchestra, and there's nothing between you and an audience but a microphone. It's like strapping yourself to a locomotive, and I love it.
Kevin Spacey
#16. 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.
Kevin Spacey
#17. Theatre is alive and it is now, and then it's gone.
Kevin Spacey
#18. The stigma that used to exist many years ago, that actors from film don't do television, seems to have disappeared. That camera doesn't know it's a TV camera ... or even a streaming camera. It's just a camera.
Kevin Spacey
#19. 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
#20. Edward Norton and I have known each other awhile. I just think he's the real deal, supremely talented and smart. He's got a great sense of humor.
Kevin Spacey
#21. Why is 'Game of Thrones' the most pirated show in the history of TV? Because people can't get it fast enough, that's why.
Kevin Spacey
#22. 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.
Kevin Spacey
#23. 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.
Kevin Spacey
#24. Working in film tends to isolate actors - it's your close-up; it's all about you.
Kevin Spacey
#25. There does seem to be in the U.S. now an ideology and an entrenchment that has stopped people doing what they are hired to do, which is govern rather than run for office the whole time.
Kevin Spacey
#26. I can't imagine that anyone in Hollywood is sitting around trying to decide what actor is good or right or qualified for a role and is being denied a role because of their political views. I don't think that's the way Hollywood works. We're not living in an era of blacklisting.
Kevin Spacey
#27. It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished.
Kevin Spacey
#28. There's no doubt that some of the greatest films ever made have come from the theater. It's all a matter of finding a way to make the theater experience watchable on film.
Kevin Spacey
#29. Living in London has become incredible. I suppose it's easy to love where you live if you love what you're doing. But this is not just a visit: it's my home.
Kevin Spacey
#30. People say, 'If you open a movie online at the same time as in movie theatres, no one is going to go to the movies.' That's just not true. People love to go out and have a shared experience; they always will.
Kevin Spacey
#31. Sometimes I'm kind of spacey. I'm like Ferdinand the bull, sniffing the daisy, not aware of time, of what's going on in the real world.
Richard Gere
#32. 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.
Kevin Spacey
#33. I couldn't imagine something asking as much of me as 'House Of Cards.' It's a great warm-up for coming back to the screen.
Kevin Spacey
#34. The more shows that are produced, the more writers are hired, producers are hired, actors are hired, directors are hired, it means the more people will get employed. It's better for the economy. It's a fantastic thing.
Kevin Spacey
#35. I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film.
Kevin Spacey
#36. I have long been a supporter of The Prince's Trust, and so when American Express asked me to launch 'Amex Be Inspired' and help young people build their confidence and fulfil their potential, I was delighted to get involved.
Kevin Spacey
#37. I think that what is truly unfortunate is when an entire party makes a decision that they're going to block every single thing that a president wants to accomplish. It's very - it's very hard to get anything done in those circumstances.
Kevin Spacey
#38. I've always found it strange that a director can hire any designer he wants from any country. But if he hires a foreign actor, it's like he's stolen the crown jewels and run across the river with them.
Kevin Spacey
#39. I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie.
Kevin Spacey
#40. 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.
Kevin Spacey
#41. Talent is only interesting if it's challenged.
Kevin Spacey
#42. I never wanted to go to the Old Vic and not have it survive long after I was gone. It's not about me; it's about that theater. And the more that it's able to grow and do everything it should do without me, then I've done my job.
Kevin Spacey
#43. What I've certainly learned is that whenever I've said anything about real politics, I've come under attack. So it's best simply to play politics on television.
Kevin Spacey
#44. It's always the big question in our lives if you have a lot of success. What do you do with it? Buy more houses, buy more cars, buy more stuff, be wealthy and distant and unengaged? Or do you take all that good fortune that has come towards you and spread the love, do something with it?
Kevin Spacey
#45. 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.
Kevin Spacey
#46. A British director directed 'American Beauty,' an important film about American life, and it didn't matter. What only mattered was everyone's sensibility.
Kevin Spacey
#47. I tend to be really spacey, but I don't think it's because I'm unintelligent - it's just my imagination and a little bit of ADD.
Jenny Slate
#48. Anytime someone can beat the acting out of someone else, I think it's a wonderful thing.
Kevin Spacey
#49. While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a child's imagination.
Kevin Spacey
#50. It's a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.
Kevin Spacey
#51. For kids growing up now, there's no difference watching 'Avatar' on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching 'Game of Thrones' on their computer. It's all content. It's just story.
Kevin Spacey
#52. 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.
Kevin Spacey
#53. 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.
Kevin Spacey
#54. 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.
Kevin Spacey
#55. I don't know who Keyser Soze is, but whoever he is, he is going to get gloriously drunk tonight.
Kevin Spacey
#56. And at this point, spacey didn't even begin to describe it - she was catatonic without the commitment.
Mishna Wolff
#57. 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.
Kevin Spacey
#58. 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.
Kevin Spacey
#59. I think people love it when anybody acts bad; it's not particular to me.
Kevin Spacey
#60. 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.'
Kevin Spacey
#61. No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story.
Kevin Spacey
#62. I'm attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.
Kevin Spacey
#63. 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.
Kevin Spacey
#64. 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.
Kevin Spacey
#65. I accept the fact that some things don't go the way you hope.
Kevin Spacey
#66. My admiration for 'Mary Tyler Moore' is very, very big because they went out on top.
Kevin Spacey
#67. I guess I've been training in the theater for as long as I can remember.
Kevin Spacey
#68. Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.
Kevin Spacey
#69. When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.
Kevin Spacey
#70. Sometimes it's the crazy people who turn out to be not so crazy.
Kevin Spacey
#71. I've never done a movie that's shot more than 40 days because I just don't do those kinds of films.
Kevin Spacey
#72. 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.
Kevin Spacey
#73. I'm used to people thinking I'm nuts. And you know what? I kind of love it.
Kevin Spacey
#74. I always thought that, in a way, you want your Superman to be a total unknown.
Kevin Spacey
#75. Celestials is a soapy space opera. Perhaps a spacey soap opera.
M.C. O'Neill
#76. The audience wants control. They want freedom.
Kevin Spacey
#77. Let's let people live their lives and do it the way they want to do it,
Kevin Spacey
#78. I always remember is that no matter how good I might be in a movie, I'll never be any better. It's frozen. But in theatre I can be better tomorrow night, I can be better the night after that and I can be better in a week. The journey you go through as an actor is incredible.
Kevin Spacey
#79. Over the years, I've spent a lot of time in Washington. It's a great theater town.
Kevin Spacey
#80. Whether that's positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.
Kevin Spacey
#81. 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.
Kevin Spacey
#82. It's Hard to Stay Mad When There's So Much Beauty in the World
Kevin Spacey
#83. Whether it's 'Veep' or 'Homeland' or 'The West Wing' - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.
Kevin Spacey
#84. At the end of the day, people have to respect people's differences. I am different than some people would like me to be.
Kevin Spacey
#85. If there is one thing I object to, it's actors talking about how tough their jobs are.
Kevin Spacey
#86. It's not easy to sustain a long career, and sometimes I don't even think about how long I've been doing it.
Kevin Spacey
#87. Am I arrogant? I've been arrogant, sure; everybody's been arrogant.
Kevin Spacey
#88. 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.
Kevin Spacey
#89. No matter how good you might be in a movie, you'll never be any better. But in a play, I can be better next Tuesday. That's the thrill of it.
Kevin Spacey
#90. Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and it's a brand new audience for me.
Kevin Spacey
#91. What's my favourite book? It changes all the time.
Kevin Spacey
#92. It's the kind of democratization of the Internet that has led to the breaking down of barriers into the creative arts.
Kevin Spacey
#93. I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity; I'd rather do my work and go home.
Kevin Spacey
#94. 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.
Kevin Spacey
#95. 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.
Kevin Spacey
#96. 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
#97. 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.
Kevin Spacey
#98. I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.
Rachel Stevens
#100. I think parenting actually makes you lose pieces of your soul again, because they go off, into your children. Or, I mean, I am so fragmented, and I'm such a spacey person.
Larkin Grimm
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