Kevin Spacey famous quotes

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.
-- Kevin Spacey

#Insane #Sometimes #Logical

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

#Heart #Risk #Directors

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.
-- Kevin Spacey

#Responsibility #Giving #Ceilings

I can't judge the characters I play, because it's for the audience to do. What I can try to do is to understand and embody what were they going through? How did they make the decisions they made? That to me is a more interesting way to approach something, rather than saying this person is a villain and that person is this and - because it's not very interesting to play that anyway.
-- Kevin Spacey

#Character #Play #Interesting

Secret Cinema has created a new way of experiencing film. The fusion of film and theatre allows for a much more powerful experience and adds an incredibly unique dimension for the audience. It certainly did for me. I was blown away
-- Kevin Spacey

#Powerful #Unique #Secret

I think that acting is a very humanizing profession.
-- Kevin Spacey

#Thinking #Acting #Profession

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

#People #Giving #Want

I think that when you put yourself, as actors have to do, in other people's shoes, when you have to put on the costume that someone else has worn in their life, it gets much, much harder to be prejudiced against them and even to be - to not try to look at the world in a sense of "I'm not going to judge somebody. I'm going to try to understand who they are and what they're about."
-- Kevin Spacey

#Thinking #Shoes #People

To know what you want, to understand why you're doing it, to dedicate every breath in your body to achieve... If you feel you have something to give, if you feel that your particular talent is worth developing, is worth caring for then there's nothing you can`t achieve.
-- Kevin Spacey

#Caring #Giving #Body

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

#Thinking #Political #Belief

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

#Sleep #Talking #Gentleman

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

#Jobs #Mean #People

The story is everything, which means it's our job to tell better stories.
-- Kevin Spacey

#Jobs #Mean #Stories

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

#Thinking #Views #Political

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box
-- Kevin Spacey

#People #Different #Way

A couple of clues came my way of what I might be getting myself into when I sat down with a number of actors who had played Richard III in the past. And I was hoping of course, that one of them or all of them were gonna give me the magic key, the secret way in to play Richard III but none of them did that.But every one of them did say the following, "Be careful."
-- Kevin Spacey

#Couple #Past #Keys

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.
-- Kevin Spacey

#Inspirational #Success #House

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

#Character #Thinking #Doubt

Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.
-- Kevin Spacey

#Passion #Voice #Enthusiasm

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

#School #Weekend #People

You can't win a marathon without putting some bandaids on your nipples!
-- Kevin Spacey

#Winning #Nipples #Marathon

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

#Night #Play #Trying

If you're lucky enough to have done well, then it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.
-- Kevin Spacey

#Inspiring #Success #Responsibility

Im attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.
-- Kevin Spacey

#Fun #Interesting #Challenges

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

#Jobs #Giving #Done

Studios and networks who ignore either shift — whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement — will be left behind,
-- Kevin Spacey

#Technological Advancement #Shifting #Sand

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

#Writing #Heart #Men

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.
-- Kevin Spacey

#Fun #Mean #Kids

For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be.
-- Kevin Spacey

#Afterlife #Would Be

I have talked to more people who are in politics who have said to me, "[House of Cards] is closer than you can imagine. It's the most accurate description of how politics actually works that we've ever seen." I mean, West Wing - beautiful, wonderful idea of how democracy should work. But I've had more people in politics say they think House of Cards is closer. I - don't know whether to take that as a compliment or a sad state of affairs.
-- Kevin Spacey

#Beautiful #Mean #Thinking

[Washington, DC] feels like you're watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don't believe them, I don't believe what they say, I don't think they're being absolutely sincere. I think it's performance art. And most of them are bad actors.
-- Kevin Spacey

#Art #Believe #Reality

I accept the fact that some things dont go the way you hope.
-- Kevin Spacey

#Way #Facts #Accepting

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

#Voice #Treats #Muscles

Fundamentally, I like to accomplish things.
-- Kevin Spacey

#Accomplish

Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and its a brand new audience for me.
-- Kevin Spacey

#Character #Games #Trying

For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.
-- Kevin Spacey

#Years #People #Attention

Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.
-- Kevin Spacey

#Art #Culture #Exposure

While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a childs imagination.
-- Kevin Spacey

#Imagination #Important #Behinds

Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to.
-- Kevin Spacey

#Actors #Answers #Sometimes

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

#Character #Directors #Gone

I don't know who Keyser Soze is, but whoever he is, he is going to get gloriously drunk tonight.
-- Kevin Spacey

#Drunk #Tonight

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

#Unique #Men #Actors

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

#Differences #People #The End Of The Day

I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.
-- Kevin Spacey

#Stories #Imagine #Hours

I cotton to the idea that people are much closer to being flawed; they have problems and dont always make the right choices.
-- Kevin Spacey

#Ideas #People #Choices

You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.
-- Kevin Spacey

#Moving #Alive #Ready

You learn every single day when youre running a company. You learn as you go.
-- Kevin Spacey

#Running #Company

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

#Long #People #Helping

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

#Thinking #Feet #People

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

#Boys #Years #Play

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

#Taken #Successful #Thinking

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

#Availability #Three #Actors

Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy,
-- Kevin Spacey

#Years #Citizens #Looks

Whats my favourite book? It changes all the time.
-- Kevin Spacey

#Book #Favourite #Favourite Book

When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.
-- Kevin Spacey

#People #Watches #Three