Top 160 Kevin Spacey Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “I think that acting is a very humanizing profession.”

— Kevin Spacey

102. “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

103. “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

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

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

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106. “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.”

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107. “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

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

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

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110. “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.”

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111. “The process of doing a play is an organic one, and the process of doing a film is totally inorganic.”

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112. “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.”

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113. “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

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

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115. “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.””

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

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

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

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

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

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

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122. “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

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

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124. “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.”

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125. “Im not revolted by Washington.”

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

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127. “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.”

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128. “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.”

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

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130. “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.”

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

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132. “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.”

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133. “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.”

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

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

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

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137. “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.”

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

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

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140. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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146. “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, theyve forgotten that, and they leave going, Wow – what an amazing play.”

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147. “With every job, you should have something to lose, something to gain, something to learn.”

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

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149. “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.”

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150. “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.”

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