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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I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.
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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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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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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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I have only one real enemy in my life that I know about, and that is John Houseman. Everything begins and ends with that hostility behind the mandarin benevolence.
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At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.
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People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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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.
