Kevin Spacey Quotes

If you have done well in whatever business you are in, it is your duty to send the elevator back down and try to help bring up the next generation of undiscovered talent.

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• The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.

  

  U Thant
  • World
  • War
  • Today

• I loved the world of imagination.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Loved

• Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • See

• I am who I am.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Person

• The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Good
  • Work
  • Running

• I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'

  

  Faith Prince
  • Good
  • You
  • Start

• It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • People
  • Great
  • Musicians

• As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Pain
  • Child
  • Young

• So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Job
  • Think
  • Grateful

• I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Life
  • Need

• That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Great
  • Never
  • Secrets

• Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Time
  • Love
  • Guy

• I think I'm like a free spirit.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Think
  • Free
  • Free Spirit

• Sometimes I panic to the point where I don't know what I'm thinking or doing. I have a full anxiety attack. I have them all the time anyway, but with auditioning, it's bad.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Bad

• Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Sometimes
  • Better
  • Drunk

• I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • America
  • History
  • Know

• I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Perfect
  • Accept
  • Strangers

• When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Singing

• It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my early teens when 'The Magic Barrel' was published and I first read it.

  

  Deborah Eisenberg
  • Magic
  • Honor

• I have a huge scarf from Hermes that I bought the day I signed my record deal. I had never had an Hermes scarf. And I ran to buy one, thinking, 'Now, this is a symbol, I need one, I need an Hermes scarf,' which actually now I'm quite embarrassed about. Most of the time I twist it so much that no one notices it, and just bundle it around me.

  

  Lou Doillon
  • Time
  • Thinking

• It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Up
  • Best
  • Looking Forward

• My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We have a place in Mexico, but people think I'm the quintessential French chef.

  

  Jacques Pepin
  • People
  • Mother
  • Wife

• Hope is a talent like any other.

  

  Storm Jameson
  • Hope
  • Talent
  • Other

• If you have done well in whatever business you are in, it is your duty to send the elevator back down and try to help bring up the next generation of undiscovered talent.

  

  Kevin Spacey
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