Kevin Spacey Quotes
I suppose the most important thing is to stay interested. It's very easy in life if you get to a place where you're successful to hit the same groove on the record player over and over again because it's safe.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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I've never had a couch that needed to be cleaned or learned how to couch-clean in general. That feels too grown-up.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.
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My wife and I have very deep roots in Colorado, and we can't see ourselves living anywhere else.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.
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The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
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Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.
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Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
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If I think even a week ahead, I get terrified. My big thing is trying to enjoy the moment as much as I can.
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I suppose the most important thing is to stay interested. It's very easy in life if you get to a place where you're successful to hit the same groove on the record player over and over again because it's safe.
