Kevin Spacey Quotes
Look, at the end of the day people have to respect people's differences. I am different than some people would like me to be.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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In my career, I'm always trying to do something different.
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Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.
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I think that I have self esteem issues, really. If you really analyse it... People who really like me I have no interest in. The unattainable is always that I want to attain.
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It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.
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Our parents were really, really grounded people but also really ambitious people, meaning they saw our ambition and were willing to help us chase it.
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Civil lawsuits do two important things: they compensate people who are injured by the bad acts of others, and they penalize people and companies for bad behavior.
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Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.
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Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
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The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
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Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.
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I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.
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I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.
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Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.
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Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
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I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions about what their expectations are - and not just financially - prior to getting married. It should really even happen prior to people living together or casting their lot together.
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I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.
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As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from anyone.
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"Those who give up dreams, do injury to their own hearts and cannot possibly enjoy a profound sense of fulfillment in the end.
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Look, at the end of the day people have to respect people's differences. I am different than some people would like me to be.
