Top 160 Kevin Spacey Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

153. “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

154. “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

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

— Kevin Spacey

156. “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

157. “The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.”

— Kevin Spacey

158. “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

159. “My job is to interpret. I’m an interpreter. I can add things and bring unique qualities to the role that the writer may not have thought of, but someone else created the fundamental idea.”

— Kevin Spacey

160. “The movies are not my first priority – the theater is.”

— Kevin Spacey

161. “If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.”

— Kevin Spacey

162. “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

163. “For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be.”

— Kevin Spacey

164. “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

165. “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

166. “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

167. “I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.”

— Kevin Spacey

168. “I guess Ive been training in the theater for as long as I can remember.”

— Kevin Spacey

169. “If you wanna compete, youve got to get into the original content game.”

— Kevin Spacey

170. “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

171. “Its the details and the human element that makes Recount entertaining. Even though we know how the election ends, it plays like a thriller. Its also funny.”

— Kevin Spacey

172. “I was terrible in my first play. After that experience, I had to face that I wasnt 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

173. “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

174. “My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.”

— Kevin Spacey

175. “When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club.”

— Kevin Spacey

176. “Kids arent growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.”

— Kevin Spacey

177. “What I like about Britain is that I can live a normal life here.”

— Kevin Spacey

178. “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

179. “I couldnt imagine something asking as much of me as House Of Cards. Its a great warm-up for coming back to the screen.”

— Kevin Spacey