Kevin Spacey Quotes
I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?
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I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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The hardest things in the world are being unique and having your life be a story. In the old days, it was much easier, but our modern fame-driven culture, with its real-time 24-7 marinade of electronic information, demands a lot from modern citizens, and poses great obstacles to narrative.
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I don't see why it gives people the right to know about my private life if I don't want to talk about it.
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I was scouted at the age of 10 by a Hollywood agent. I was a really shy, geeky-looking thing, and started in the industry by doing 'extra' work on films.
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I've been through heartbreak and uncertainty and giddy crushes and everything. We all have.
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I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?
