Top 160 Kevin Spacey Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

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

— Kevin Spacey

104. “Theres no doubt that some of the greatest films ever made have come from the theater. Its all a matter of finding a way to make the theater experience watchable on film.”

— Kevin Spacey

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

— Kevin Spacey

106. “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

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

— Kevin Spacey

108. “I’ve been on sets where things weren’t relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.”

— Kevin Spacey

109. “I am not an image. I am a human being.”

— Kevin Spacey

110. “Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?”

— Kevin Spacey

111. “I’m not someone who’s led my life trying to get publicity; I’d rather do my work and go home.”

— Kevin Spacey

112. “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

113. “As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.”

— Kevin Spacey

114. “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

115. “And I certainly won’t lay out areas of my life that I think are just private.”

— Kevin Spacey

116. “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

117. “Im not revolted by Washington.”

— Kevin Spacey

118. “In film, movies schedules are based on three things: actors availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place youre going to film in.”

— Kevin Spacey

119. “Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.”

— Kevin Spacey

120. “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

121. “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

122. “I actually have a number of lovely watches from the International Watch Company.”

— Kevin Spacey

123. “I think people love it when anybody acts bad; its not particular to me.”

— Kevin Spacey

124. “As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.”

— Kevin Spacey

125. “Im attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.”

— Kevin Spacey

126. “Theres nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to.”

— Kevin Spacey

127. “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

128. “Pushing the boundaries of what is expected of you is important to me.”

— Kevin Spacey

129. “For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.”

— Kevin Spacey

130. “One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.”

— Kevin Spacey

131. “Gaming is going into storytelling. It was a new audience.”

— Kevin Spacey

132. “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

133. “If youre not concerned about maintaining an image, you can pursue roads that another actor might not take.”

— Kevin Spacey

134. “It’s the kind of democratization of the Internet that has led to the breaking down of barriers into the creative arts.”

— Kevin Spacey

135. “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

136. “Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and its a brand new audience for me.”

— Kevin Spacey

137. “Its extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.”

— Kevin Spacey

138. “Talent is only interesting if it’s challenged.”

— Kevin Spacey

139. “When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.”

— Kevin Spacey

140. “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

141. “The audience, the place youre in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.”

— Kevin Spacey

142. “While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a childs imagination.”

— Kevin Spacey

143. “I’m aware that, from the outside, this looks like I’ve got quite an ego.”

— Kevin Spacey

144. “Meeting the person you are going to be playing is very unique.”

— Kevin Spacey

145. “I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. Ive got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.”

— Kevin Spacey

146. “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

147. “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

148. “Fundamentally, I like to accomplish things.”

— Kevin Spacey

149. “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

150. “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