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Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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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
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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
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I always thought that, in a way, you want your Superman to be a total unknown. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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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
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Give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price, and they'll more likely pay for it rather than steal it. Well, some will still steal it, but I think we can take a bite out of piracy. -- Kevin Spacey
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If we don't reach out to make theatre affordable to the young generation, we will lose them all. -- Kevin Spacey
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The audience wants control. They want freedom. -- Kevin Spacey
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With every job, you should have something to lose, something to gain, something to learn. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and it's a brand new audience for me. -- Kevin Spacey
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To look in the eyes of audiences and see the kind of naughty glee that they got with being on the inside, the audience becomes your co-conspirators. -- Kevin Spacey
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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. -- Kevin Spacey
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Meeting the person you are going to be playing is very unique. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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There are times when you do a play when you are living in the character over a two-and-a-half-hour period or longer, and you come to the end of the night, and you can feel like you were hit by a truck. -- Kevin Spacey
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My mother was sarcastic and delightful and, trust me, quite remarkable. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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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
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I was on a couple of scholarships. I had a job in the school administrative office. I had a job as a hat-check boy in a restaurant. I had another job as an assistant to a casting director. It took a lot to get myself enough money to put myself through Juilliard. -- Kevin Spacey
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I'm used to people thinking I'm nuts. And you know what? I kind of love it. -- Kevin Spacey
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Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where you're both championing a character and you're revolted by them. -- Kevin Spacey
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It's Hard to Stay Mad When There's So Much Beauty in the World -- Kevin Spacey
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I'm not a writer, and I don't want there to be any mistake about that. -- Kevin Spacey
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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. -- Kevin Spacey
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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. -- Kevin Spacey
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Clearly the success of the Netflix model, releasing the entire season of 'House of Cards' at once, proved one thing: The audience wants the control. They want the freedom. If they want to binge as they've been doing on 'House of Cards' and lots of other shows, we should let them binge. -- Kevin Spacey
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Francis Underwood was entirely based on Richard III. When Michael Dobbs wrote 'House of Cards' in the original British series, Richard III is what he based the character on. -- Kevin Spacey
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You can't turn a "no" to a "yes" without a "maybe" in between. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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My mother always, always, always thought that I was going to be famous. Thought that I was going to win Oscars. In fact, I believe I accepted the Oscar as a ketchup bottle many a time in front of my mother in the kitchen. 'I'd like to thank the Academy,' I said with a ketchup bottle. -- Kevin Spacey
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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. -- Kevin Spacey
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There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor or actress, by the end, they've forgotten that, and they leave going, 'Wow - what an amazing play.' -- Kevin Spacey
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I remember meeting the likes of Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart for the first time and being completely starstruck. -- Kevin Spacey
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Talent is one thing, it is how you nurture and develop it, and never walk away from it. You can be rich, successful, you win awards, but it can always be better. -- Kevin Spacey
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It's the kind of democratization of the Internet that has led to the breaking down of barriers into the creative arts. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome my dogs. -- Kevin Spacey
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The movies are not my first priority - the theater is. -- Kevin Spacey
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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. -- Kevin Spacey
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I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity; I'd rather do my work and go home. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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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
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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
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If there is one thing I object to, it's actors talking about how tough their jobs are. -- Kevin Spacey
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Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions you'd rather not know the answers to. -- Kevin Spacey
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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 -- Kevin Spacey
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Fortunately for me, I don't come from the school where you only measure success by how much money something makes or whether it has a big box-office weekend. I measure it by how much people actually participate in the process. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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Film is very condensed. -- Kevin Spacey
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The relationship with the cast has everything to do with how a performance develops, and in a sense that while you're discovering a play in the course of rehearsal with the director, you're also discovering it with your fellow actors. We're all in it together. -- Kevin Spacey
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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! -- Kevin Spacey
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[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
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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
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Maybe there are people who are gamers who haven't seen movies I have made, or the movies I have made have made no impression on them at all. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera. -- Kevin Spacey
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I think people love it when anybody acts bad; it's not particular to me. -- Kevin Spacey
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President Obama will go down as having passed some of the most historic bills in the history of this country. -- Kevin Spacey
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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. -- Kevin Spacey
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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. -- Kevin Spacey
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The only real experiences I've had with therapists were the ones who were working with me and my family when my mother was ill. -- Kevin Spacey
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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. -- Kevin Spacey
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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. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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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
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No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story. -- Kevin Spacey
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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. -- Kevin Spacey
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My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across. -- Kevin Spacey
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I cotton to the idea that people are much closer to being flawed; they have problems and don't always make the right choices. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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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
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My life will change, because I want it to change; and also because this is something I'm committed to doing and that I believe my life has been leading towards. -- Kevin Spacey
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People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want. -- Kevin Spacey
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Pushing the boundaries of what is expected of you is important to me. -- Kevin Spacey
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Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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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
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I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film. -- Kevin Spacey
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While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a child's imagination. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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I certainly identify with the role of mentor and, to some degree, maybe teacher. I do a lot of work with kids at the Old Vic. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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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. -- Kevin Spacey
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I think that there was a period of time - and I would reckon it was about 12 years - where I was just determined to see if I could build a career for myself. -- Kevin Spacey
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I'm attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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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
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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
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Politics and acting are very closely tied. The job is to convince. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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To me, getting up every single night and trying to reach out to an audience, and trying to dig deeper and further in the play to serve the writer and to understand yourself in that context is how you continue to grow and learn. -- Kevin Spacey
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Both 'Consenting Adults' and 'Glengarry Glen Ross' revolve around the economic stresses of the '90s. They are about what people do when they're pushed against that wall, and how they're manipulated. They are both morality tales, though in very different genres. -- Kevin Spacey
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A man can convince anyone hes someone else but never himself. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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Mediocrity is the elephant in the room. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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We're going to see a lot of companies that have been portals of entertainment become producers. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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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
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Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion. -- Kevin Spacey
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And I certainly won't lay out areas of my life that I think are just private. -- Kevin Spacey
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In recent years we've seen an explosion of creative programming, and I think it represents a third golden age of television because the creators have more control over the story. The audience doesn't care about the platform. They care about the content. -- Kevin Spacey
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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. -- Kevin Spacey
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If I'm sick of me, I can only imagine how other people feel. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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I don't care about my personal acting career anymore. I'm done with it. After 10 years of making movies and doing better than I ever could have imagined, I sort of had to ask myself: 'What am I supposed to do with all of this success that I have had?' -- Kevin Spacey
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I am not an image. I am a human being. -- Kevin Spacey
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Let's let people live their lives and do it the way they want to do it, -- Kevin Spacey
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I guess I've been training in the theater for as long as I can remember. -- Kevin Spacey
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It's interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done. -- Kevin Spacey
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I don't know who Keyser Soze is, but whoever he is, he is going to get gloriously drunk tonight. -- Kevin Spacey
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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. -- Kevin Spacey
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At the end of the day, storytelling is actually very simple in its origin as long as there are people who want to tell stories and there are people who want to hear them. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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We've learned the lesson that the music industry didn't learn: give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price, and they'll more likely pay for it rather than steal it. -- Kevin Spacey
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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! -- Kevin Spacey
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I love producing, I love bringing things together. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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You risk working with this director, you risk making this movie, you risk working with another actor you don't know. It makes your heart beat faster. And it keeps you interested. -- Kevin Spacey
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Am I arrogant? I've been arrogant, sure; everybody's been arrogant. -- Kevin Spacey
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After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley. -- Kevin Spacey
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Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow ... Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy. -- Kevin Spacey
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What I like about Britain is that I can live a normal life here. -- Kevin Spacey
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You learn every single day when you're running a company. You learn as you go. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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I accept the fact that some things don't go the way you hope. -- Kevin Spacey
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It's extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare. -- Kevin Spacey
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If you're lucky enough to do well, it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down. -- Kevin Spacey
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People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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Life's all about perceptions. -- Kevin Spacey
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There's nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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Theatre is alive and it is now, and then it's gone. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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Working in film tends to isolate actors - it's your close-up; it's all about you. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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The story is everything, which means it's our job to tell better stories. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Talent is only interesting if it's challenged. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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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
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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
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Anytime someone can beat the acting out of someone else, I think it's a wonderful thing. -- Kevin Spacey
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It's a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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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
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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
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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
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My admiration for 'Mary Tyler Moore' is very, very big because they went out on top. -- Kevin Spacey
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Sometimes it's the crazy people who turn out to be not so crazy. -- Kevin Spacey
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Over the years, I've spent a lot of time in Washington. It's a great theater town. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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What's my favourite book? It changes all the time. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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I'm not revolted by Washington. -- Kevin Spacey
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I have wanted to have children. I do want to have children. -- Kevin Spacey
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Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know? -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors' theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances. -- Kevin Spacey
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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. -- Kevin Spacey
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Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you will live through again and again, forever. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around. Because this time is all you have. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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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
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Kids aren't growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas. -- Kevin Spacey
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I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. I've got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd. -- Kevin Spacey
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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. -- Kevin Spacey
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One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously. -- Kevin Spacey
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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. -- Kevin Spacey
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Anyone with a internet connection and an idea can develop an audience -- Kevin Spacey
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If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesn't that show an incredible attention span? -- Kevin Spacey
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I felt that I shouldn't be an actor who just makes movie after movie in a quest for prestige and money. -- Kevin Spacey
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I've taken the experiences that I've had in the theatre and applied them to film and television and now games. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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I just want to be better. I just want to be better. But this is very encouraging. -- Kevin Spacey
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When you know you have 1,000 people sitting on the edge of their seats in silence because of a shift that just happened on stage, there is no better feeling. -- Kevin Spacey
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I am now a commander of the British Empire. -- Kevin Spacey
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I want to do better. I want to produce better stories. I want to do better plays. -- Kevin Spacey
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Our job, you know, in the entertainment profession is to try to illuminate and show people all sides of humanity, and it doesn't just mean that you can only do movies that are only about the good parts of us. You have to be able to eliminate the bad parts. -- Kevin Spacey
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You can't win a marathon without putting some bandaids on your nipples! -- Kevin Spacey
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We're all victims of our own hubris at times. -- Kevin Spacey
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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. -- Kevin Spacey
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As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck. -- Kevin Spacey
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Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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Some politicians that I've seen have been brilliant with the public. They almost speak with the skill of an actor. -- Kevin Spacey
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I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid. -- Kevin Spacey
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When you're just able to distill it down to the idea and the feeling that a character is experiencing in a scene, it can become very, very razor sharp and really clean and really efficient and simple. And sometimes it takes twenty-five years to learn how to be simple. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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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. -- Kevin Spacey
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I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks. -- Kevin Spacey
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People think that direct address was invented by Ferris Bueller, but in fact, it wasn't. It was invented by Shakespeare. -- Kevin Spacey
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Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time. -- Kevin Spacey
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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. -- Kevin Spacey
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Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young people to develop communication/collaboration skills, let alone improving their own confidence. -- Kevin Spacey
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The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly. -- Kevin Spacey
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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. -- Kevin Spacey
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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. -- Kevin Spacey
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I love doing impressions. -- Kevin Spacey
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'The 24 Hour Plays' is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned. -- Kevin Spacey
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The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall. -- Kevin Spacey
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As an actor, you're always nervous as to what a director will do with something. -- Kevin Spacey
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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. -- Kevin Spacey
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No one should ever feel sorry for me. I've been treated very well for the most part. -- Kevin Spacey
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I am different than some people would like me to be. I just don't buy into that the personal can be political. -- Kevin Spacey
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There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose. -- Kevin Spacey
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Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane. -- Kevin Spacey
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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." -- Kevin Spacey
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People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey. -- Kevin Spacey
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I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that. -- Kevin Spacey
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The less you know about me, the easier it is to convince you that I am that character on screen. -- Kevin Spacey
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You just play what a writer writes, in terms of what a character chooses to do and how a character chooses to deal with their various relationships. -- Kevin Spacey
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I became a bit of a jerk. A kind of a nasty jerk. -- Kevin Spacey
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The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty. -- Kevin Spacey
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I have never played a game in my life. -- Kevin Spacey
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The audience, the place you're in, has everything to do with how your performance goes. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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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. -- Kevin Spacey
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I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego. -- Kevin Spacey
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I don't play villainy. I wouldn't even know how to play it. -- Kevin Spacey
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I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don't judge; I just play them. -- Kevin Spacey
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If you wanna compete, you've got to get into the original content game. -- Kevin Spacey
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I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman. -- Kevin Spacey
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London is a very energising place to be. -- Kevin Spacey
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I don't even think in terms of ambition. -- Kevin Spacey
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You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction. -- Kevin Spacey
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The process of doing a play is an organic one, and the process of doing a film is totally inorganic. -- Kevin Spacey
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For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans. -- Kevin Spacey
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Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not. -- Kevin Spacey
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I'll tell you one thing. I've never heard a director saying that the dailies suck. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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Where the gaming world is going - and certainly Activision proved it by hiring me - is being willing to push and bend and move in a new direction of actually capturing the character and storytelling. -- Kevin Spacey
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Gaming is going into storytelling. It was a new audience. -- Kevin Spacey
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As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies ... is you fall in love with moments. -- Kevin Spacey
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If you're not concerned about maintaining an image, you can pursue roads that another actor might not take. -- Kevin Spacey
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I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded. -- Kevin Spacey
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I'm not going to make general comments about the British press. -- Kevin Spacey
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If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician. -- Kevin Spacey
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For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be. -- Kevin Spacey
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Studios and networks who ignore either shift - whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement - will be left behind, -- Kevin Spacey
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I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason. -- Kevin Spacey
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Fundamentally, I like to accomplish things. -- Kevin Spacey
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I actually have a number of lovely watches from the International Watch Company. -- Kevin Spacey
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Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller. -- Kevin Spacey
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When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club. -- Kevin Spacey
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I think that acting is a very humanizing profession. -- Kevin Spacey
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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
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The greatest sound in the theater is silence. -- Kevin Spacey
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I'm able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie. -- Kevin Spacey
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I don't watch rugby. -- Kevin Spacey