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01Undated

We gotta be willing to let it hurt. You know, all this notion that acting is “yeah it’s pretend” and yes we enjoy it and yeah we can have a good time with it. But if you wanna LAND, you wanna make an impact, you want those FUCKERS TO REMEMBER YOU! Then you have to let it hurt sometimes. You gotta get there because that’s all an audience ever wants. Is for you to open up your chest and show them that you have a fucking heart. That’s all we want. A heart. A human being. Not an affectation.

Kevin Spacey / quote

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02Undated

Edward Norton and I have known each other awhile. I just think he's the real deal, supremely talented and smart. He's got a great sense of humor.

Kevin Spacey / quote

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03Undated

After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.

Kevin Spacey / quote

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04Undated

My mother always, always, always thought that I was going to be famous. Thought that I was going to win Oscars. In fact, I believe I accepted the Oscar as a ketchup bottle many a time in front of my mother in the kitchen. 'I'd like to thank the Academy,' I said with a ketchup bottle.

Kevin Spacey / quote

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05Undated

I certainly identify with the role of mentor and, to some degree, maybe teacher. I do a lot of work with kids at the Old Vic.

Kevin Spacey / quote

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06Undated

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 / quote

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07Undated

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 / quote

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08Undated

I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome my dogs.

Kevin Spacey / quote

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09Undated

There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor or actress, by the end, they've forgotten that, and they leave going, 'Wow - what an amazing play.'

Kevin Spacey / quote

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10Undated

As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of their time raising millions of dollars for television ads, it will be corrupt. If we leave it up to the politicians to clean up lobbying and finance reform, nothing is going to change.

Kevin Spacey / quote

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11Undated

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.

Kevin Spacey / quote

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12Undated

Whether that's positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.

Kevin Spacey / quote

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13Undated

Maybe there are people who are gamers who haven't seen movies I have made, or the movies I have made have made no impression on them at all.

Kevin Spacey / quote

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14Undated

My mother was sarcastic and delightful and, trust me, quite remarkable.

Kevin Spacey / quote

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15Undated

I have long been a supporter of The Prince's 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 / quote

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16Undated

While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a child's imagination.

Kevin Spacey / quote

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17Undated

Partisan rancour and party politics and ideology have got in the way of compromise - and compromise is the only thing that has ever made politics successful.

Kevin Spacey / quote

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18Undated

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 / quote

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19Undated

It's always the big question in our lives if you have a lot of success. What do you do with it? Buy more houses, buy more cars, buy more stuff, be wealthy and distant and unengaged? Or do you take all that good fortune that has come towards you and spread the love, do something with it?

Kevin Spacey / quote

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20Undated

The relationship with the cast has everything to do with how a performance develops, and in a sense that while you're discovering a play in the course of rehearsal with the director, you're also discovering it with your fellow actors. We're all in it together.

Kevin Spacey / quote

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21Undated

My life will change, because I want it to change; and also because this is something I'm committed to doing and that I believe my life has been leading towards.

Kevin Spacey / quote

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22Undated

I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity I'd rather do my work and go home.

Kevin Spacey / quote

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23Undated

Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young people to develop communication/collaboration skills, let alone improving their own confidence.

Kevin Spacey / quote

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