Kevin Spacey Quotes
The most important definition of an actor, the job of the actor, is to serve the writer, not yourself. Way too many actors serve themselves.
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Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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I want audiences to see me in different avatars.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
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Shoes are important to me because I don't do much with my clothes.
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Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.
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In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
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The sum total of what I learned about African American culture in school was Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Underground Railroad. This was more than my mom knew; she didn't even see a black person in real life until she was 18 years old.
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I think that each country must protect its own borders, and that is why I'm simply asking for the abolition of Schengen.
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India is an important market for Ericsson, not only as a telecom market but also as a global hub for R&D.
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The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.
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The most important definition of an actor, the job of the actor, is to serve the writer, not yourself. Way too many actors serve themselves.
