Top 160 Kevin Spacey Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It’s Hard to Stay Mad When There’s So Much Beauty in the World.”

— Kevin Spacey

2. “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was making us believe that he’s not real.”

— Kevin Spacey

3. “People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone’s reasons in the same box.”

— Kevin Spacey

4. “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

5. “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

6. “You can’t win a marathon without putting some bandaids on your nipples!”

— Kevin Spacey

7. “I don’t know who Keyser Soze is, but whoever he is, he is going to get gloriously drunk tonight.”

— Kevin Spacey

8. “We’re all victims of our own hubris at times.”

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9. “Whats my favourite book? It changes all the time.”

— Kevin Spacey

10. “Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.”

— Kevin Spacey

11. “Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.”

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12. “A man can convince anyone hes someone else but never himself.”

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

— Kevin Spacey

14. “You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.”

— Kevin Spacey

15. “The story is everything, which means it’s our job to tell better stories.”

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16. “I love producing, I love bringing things together.”

— Kevin Spacey

17. “The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won’t admit he played badly.”

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18. “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

19. “If I’m sick of me, I can only imagine how other people feel.”

— Kevin Spacey

20. “No one’s personal life is in the public interest. It’s gossip, bottom line. End of story.”

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21. “My mother was sarcastic and delightful and, trust me, quite remarkable.”

— Kevin Spacey

22. “If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesnt that show an incredible attention span?”

— Kevin Spacey

23. “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

24. “The greatest sound in the theater is silence.”

— Kevin Spacey

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

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26. “If you’re lucky enough to have done well, then it’s your responsibility to send the elevator back down.”

— Kevin Spacey

27. “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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28. “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

29. “No one should ever feel sorry for me. Ive been treated very well for the most part.”

— Kevin Spacey

30. “I have never played a game in my life.”

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31. “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.”

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32. “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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33. “You learn every single day when youre running a company. You learn as you go.”

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34. “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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35. “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

36. “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.”

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37. “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.”

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38. “If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.”

— Kevin Spacey

39. “I just want to be better. I just want to be better. But this is very encouraging.”

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40. “I’m a relatively ugly character who’s done pretty damn well in film.”

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41. “Politics and acting are very closely tied. The job is to convince.”

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42. “Its a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.”

— Kevin Spacey

43. “Theatre is alive and it is now, and then it’s gone.”

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44. “You can’t turn a “no” to a “yes” without a “maybe” in between.”

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45. “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.”

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46. “Whether thats positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.”

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47. “The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty.”

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48. “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.”

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49. “Anyone with a internet connection and an idea can develop an audience.”

— Kevin Spacey

50. “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