Kevin Spacey quotes

Kevin Spacey is an American actor, producer, and director known for his powerful performances on stage and screen. His work has earned him critical acclaim and numerous prestigious awards, including two Academy Awards. He has also faced significant controversy and allegations that have affected his career. Here are 130 of his quotes:

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

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

Kevin Spacey

The thing that is always so surprising about plays written in another century is how remarkably elastic they are. When you listen to the way in which Shakespeare attacks relationships, for example, even though the words may start off sounding foreign, in actuality they are so accessible, the motivations so clear, the resonances so contemporary. When you put it in a modern context - we could well be in a place with someone like Gaddafi or Mubarak - it becomes apparent how Richard III resonates with that type of personality, with media and manipulation, alliances and petty jealousies.

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I have a lot of respect and admiration for Anthony Rapp as an actor. I'm beyond horrified to hear his story. I honestly do not remember the encounter, it would have been 30 years ago. But if I did behave then as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior, and I am sorry for the feelings he describes having carried with him all these years. This story has encouraged me to address other things about my life. I know that there are stories about me and that some have been fueled by the fact that I have been so protective of my privacy. As those closest to me know, in my life I have had relationships with both men and women. I have loved and had romantic encounters with men throughout my life, and I choose now to live as a gay man. I want to deal with this honestly and openly and that starts with examining my own behavior.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a row. And there are many young performers who only learn their craft in the two minute bits it takes to film a scene. You never learn the arc of storytelling, the arc of a character that way.

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Well, whoever Keyser Söze is, I can tell you he is going to get gloriously drunk tonight.

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Dianne, thank you for teaching me about caring about the right things, and I love you.

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

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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.

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I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.

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As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments.

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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.

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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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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.

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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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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?

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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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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.

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