Kevin Spacey Quotes
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?
Kevin Spacey
I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage my ideas and energies.
Kevin Spacey
Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected.
Kevin Spacey
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.
Kevin Spacey
I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don't win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie.
Kevin Spacey
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
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
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
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
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
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
While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a child's imagination.
Kevin Spacey
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
It's a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.
Kevin Spacey
There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose.
Kevin Spacey
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.
Kevin Spacey
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
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
I remember meeting the likes of Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart for the first time and being completely starstruck.
Kevin Spacey
Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.
Kevin Spacey
I don't live a lie. You have to understand that people who choose not to discuss their personal lives are not living a lie. That is a presumption that people jump to.
Kevin Spacey
There's nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to.
Kevin Spacey
I'm attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.
Kevin Spacey
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.
Kevin Spacey
Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.
Kevin Spacey
When you study, as I did, every theatrical beginning in this country, none of them have been greeted well. The Royal Shakespeare Company was a disaster, Peter Hall was a disaster, Richard Eyre was a disaster, Trevor Nunn was always a disaster.
Kevin Spacey
I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don't judge; I just play them.
Kevin Spacey
I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected.
Kevin Spacey
When I was young, I learned very early on that I could make my mother laugh. And that was one of the greatest sounds I ever heard.
Kevin Spacey
As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of their time raising millions of dollars for television ads, it will be corrupt. If we leave it up to the politicians to clean up lobbying and finance reform, nothing is going to change.
Kevin Spacey
You can almost hear people saying, 'We're going to make a movie about an election' and 'We're going to make a movie about a lobbyist.' You can hear the yawning start across the nation.
Kevin Spacey
For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.
Kevin Spacey
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.
Kevin Spacey