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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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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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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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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I would not want to be a part of any project that I feel would not work. An actor like me always wants to work to get appreciation of the audiences. And appreciation can only come if people will come to watch the film.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
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I admire many actors, though I don't think there's anyone whose career I would want to mirror sort of by the beats. What I'm really looking to do is constantly defy expectations. I'm very curious to see if you can actually have a character actor and a movie star's career combined.
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Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah.
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Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
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There is a great market for cars in the United States - as Honda and Toyota have proven.
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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.
