Kevin Spacey

Actor

1959-07-26

Quotes by Kevin Spacey

• The fact is that HBO is doing the kind of films and the kind of stories that the movie industry used to do. You look at a lot of the specialty sections of studios that have gone under... and there's no doubt in my mind why filmmakers and screenwriters and actors are ending up at a place like HBO. They do it better than anybody.

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• 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. Well, some will still steal it, but I think we can take a bite out of piracy.

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• The stigma that used to exist many years ago, that actors from film don't do television, seems to have disappeared. That camera doesn't know it's a TV camera... or even a streaming camera. It's just a camera.

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• I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage my ideas and energies.

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• I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don't judge; I just play them.

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• I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded.

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• 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.

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• No matter how good you might be in a movie, you'll never be any better. But in a play, I can be better next Tuesday. That's the thrill of it.

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• 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!

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• My admiration for 'Mary Tyler Moore' is very, very big because they went out on top.

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• I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected.

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• We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

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• I couldn't imagine something asking as much of me as 'House Of Cards.' It's a great warm-up for coming back to the screen.

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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 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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