Kevin Spacey Quotes
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Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.
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You can't win a marathon without putting some bandaids on your nipples!
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You are not just, "This is the way I play it every night." You are constantly finding new ways in, new attacks, "I want to try it this way. Maybe this scene is affecting that scene. I want to attack this scene differently."
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Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.
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What I like about Britain is that I can live a normal life here.
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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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Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.
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I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie.
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I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.
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Theatre is alive and it is now, and then it's gone.
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The characters created cannot just be a mouthpiece for the writer. When you look at a piece of writing, and it's genuine and it doesn't feel like every character is just a mouthpiece for the writer, but that they've been created in such a way that they're expressing an idea that a writer wants to get across, that's when a story succeeds.
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When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club.
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People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want.
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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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It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished.
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Meeting the person you are going to be playing is very unique.
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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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Its interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.
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It's Hard to Stay Mad When There's So Much Beauty in the World
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I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.
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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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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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Politics and acting are very closely tied. The job is to convince.
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I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. Ive got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.