22 Quotes by Kevin Spacey
- For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be.
- 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.
- Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.
- It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.
- 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.
- 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!
- I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.
- 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.
- 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.
- I'm lucky if I find one movie a year that's worth doing, and when I do find one, it usually only takes 20-30 days to shoot.
- I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.
- The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before.
- 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.
- As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments.
- Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?
- Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.
- 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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