Kevin Spacey Quotes

I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.

Kevin Spacey

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• When the opportunity came along to do 'Win, Lose or Draw,' I took it selfishly to find out if I did enjoy being me on camera. And I did that for the last two years I was doing 'Mama's Family.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Family
  • Opportunity
  • Win

• Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Important
  • Why
  • New

• Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Rich
  • Course
  • Soak

• There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Man
  • Television
  • Cinema

• Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Thoughts

• No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Future

• Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Memory
  • Carry
  • Diary

• Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Death
  • Light
  • Dawn

• I'm not just a normal guy. I'm a gymnast.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Guy
  • Just
  • Normal

• I want to show people there's not just one way of being Muslim.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Want
  • Way

• Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Lie
  • Liar
  • Too Much

• If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • You
  • Never
  • Elephant

• There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Great
  • Worst
  • Relief

• The new 'Joy' was needed for a number of reasons. Recent developments in nutrition and new ingredients were two of the major reasons for the revision. One of the other big reasons was America's new love for big flavors. Yay!

  

  Irma S. Rombauer
  • Joy
  • Reasons
  • Developments

• As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Up
  • Different
  • Pretty

• Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother from the 'hood. But as soon as he brings out that English thing, I'm like, 'Woo! You look like you're from London. Oh my God!' It's like everything on him changes. He's so cool!

  

  Tasha Smith
  • God
  • American
  • Funny

• If, in this country, a simple majority of people can start stripping away the rights of a protected class in the minority, that's a pretty alarming thing.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Country
  • Pretty

• Reinforcement is being right.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Right
  • Being
  • Reinforcement

• They have a new coach. We have a new team.

  

  Udonis Haslem
  • Team
  • New
  • Coach

• The book industry is all about community, and it never really feels like anyone is competing against anyone, thankfully.

  

  Adam Silvera
  • Book
  • Industry
  • Competing

• There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.

  

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o
  • Unity
  • Nation
  • Survive

• You think you've made something really great, but there's a reason why it's not resonating the way some previous work did. But it's not that easy to just replicate. Some people think, "Oh, just go do that thing you used to do before." But it just doesn't work like that. It's a lot more mysterious or slippery.

  

  Black Francis Pixies
  • Great
  • Reason
  • Mysterious

• Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now I was falling, as in a dream slowly, even as I continued to hold the thermometer in my hand, een as I stood with the soles of my slippers on the floor, even as I felt myself solidly contained by the expectant looks of my children. It was the fault of the torture that my husband had inflicted. But enough, I had to tear the pain from memory, I had to sandpaper away the scratches that were damaging my brain.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Dream
  • Night
  • Memory

• I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Reason
  • Creating
  • Tension