Top 160 Kevin Spacey Quotes (2025 Update)
Page 2 of 4

51. “It’s not even about being negative. It’s just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished.”

— Kevin Spacey

52. “Look, 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

53. “I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome my dogs.”

— Kevin Spacey

54. “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

55. “Im always taken aback by things that are successful that I think are just crap, and then Im completely surprised when things I do end up being successful because you walk into things and you never know Its just really remarkable.”

— Kevin Spacey

56. “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

57. “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

58. “Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.”

— Kevin Spacey

59. “I remember meeting the likes of Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart for the first time and being completely starstruck.”

— Kevin Spacey

60. “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

61. “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

62. “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

63. “Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.”

— Kevin Spacey

64. “Sometimes its the crazy people who turn out to be not so crazy.”

— Kevin Spacey

65. “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

66. “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

67. “Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing – which is a more idealised version of democracy – people are fascinated by politics.”

— Kevin Spacey

68. “Im able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie.”

— Kevin Spacey

69. “I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded.”

— Kevin Spacey

70. “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

71. “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

72. “Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.”

— Kevin Spacey

73. “Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to.”

— Kevin Spacey

74. “The less you know about me the easier it is to convince you that I’m the character on screen.”

— Kevin Spacey

75. “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

76. “I have long been a supporter of The Princes 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

77. “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

78. “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

79. “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

80. “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

81. “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

82. “There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose.”

— Kevin Spacey

83. “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

84. “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

85. “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

86. “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

87. “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

88. “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

89. “Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.”

— Kevin Spacey

90. “I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.”

— Kevin Spacey

91. “Anytime someone can beat the acting out of someone else, I think its a wonderful thing.”

— Kevin Spacey

92. “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

93. “I think that acting is a very humanizing profession.”

— Kevin Spacey

94. “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

95. “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

96. “Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where youre both championing a character and youre revolted by them.”

— Kevin Spacey

97. “I always thought that, in a way, you want your Superman to be a total unknown.”

— Kevin Spacey

98. “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

99. “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

100. “London is a very energising place to be.”

— Kevin Spacey