Quotes by Kevin Spacey

About Kevin Spacey:

Kevin Spacey Fowler is an American actor, film director, writer, producer, and comedian. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, before being cast in supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclaim in the early 1990s, culminating in his first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the neo-noir crime thriller The Usual Suspects (1995), followed by an Academy Award for Best Actor for midlife crisis-themed drama American Beauty (1999).
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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...

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For kids growing up now, there's no difference watching 'Avatar' on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching 'Game of Thrones' on their computer. It's all content. It's just story.

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When you study, as I did, every theatrical beginning in this country, none of them have been greeted well. The Royal Shakespeare Company was a disaster, Peter Hall was a disaster, Richard Eyre was a disaster, Trevor Nunn was always a disaster.

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I don't live a lie. You have to understand that people who choose not to discuss their personal lives are not living a lie. That is a presumption that people jump to.

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I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.

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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.

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Am I arrogant? I've been arrogant, sure; everybody's been arrogant.

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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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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.

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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.

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Sometimes it's the crazy people who turn out to be not so crazy.

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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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It's not easy to sustain a long career, and sometimes I don't even think about how long I've been doing it.

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Where the gaming world is going - and certainly Activision proved it by hiring me - is being willing to push and bend and move in a new direction of actually capturing the character and storytelling.

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The more shows that are produced, the more writers are hired, producers are hired, actors are hired, directors are hired, it means the more people will get employed. It's better for the economy. It's a fantastic thing.

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Anytime someone can beat the acting out of someone else, I think it's a wonderful thing.

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Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions you'd rather not know the answers to.

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As an actor, you're always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

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Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow... Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.

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Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.

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Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where you're both championing a character and you're revolted by them.

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Author Bio

  • NameKevin Spacey
  • DescriptionAmerican actor, director, screenwriter, producer
  • BornJuly 26, 1959
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Actor; Theatre Director; Film Director; Actor; Television Actor; Film Producer; Screenwriter; Voice Actor
  • AwardsLaurence Olivier Award; Academy Award For Best Actor; Academy Award For Best Supporting Actor; Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire