Kevin Spacey Quotes

If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.

Kevin Spacey

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• Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Creation
  • Forests
  • Acorn

• I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid. When I was a little girl, I was told, 'When we are gone' - when you're a kid, you never think they'll ever be gone - 'you have to keep the music alive, the Carter Family songs, and add your own songs.'

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Music
  • Family
  • Girl

• Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Justice
  • Better
  • Judges

• It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Always
  • Reform
  • Bring

• The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.

  

  Vernon A. Walters
  • Place
  • Achieve
  • Resolution

• I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • World
  • Love
  • Feeling

• It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

  

  Manly Hall
  • Chaos
  • Step
  • Boredom

• I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Blind

• I realized that, all along, my theory was right: Make music that you want to hear, and instead of having fans that one day might criticize or abandon you, your fans aren't even fans. They're people with tastes similar to yours. They're friends you haven't met yet.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • People
  • Music
  • Friends

• In 1559, Duke Frederick III was summoned before the Emperor Ferdinand I at Breslau to answer the accusations of extravagance and oppression brought against him by the Silesian Estates and was deposed, imprisoned, and his son Henry XI given the Ducal crown instead.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Son
  • Oppression
  • Crown

• I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Work
  • Long

• Over the years, Forgotten Realms and gaming have taken me all over the world and made me all sorts of new friends.

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • World
  • Friends
  • New

• Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Life
  • Understanding
  • Negative

• Victims and survivors deserve more than a person seeking a headline.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Person
  • More
  • Deserve

• I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • World
  • Music
  • Education

• My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.

  

  Karyn Parsons
  • She
  • Mother
  • Black

• I'm constantly questioning the effects technology has had on our lives and the effect that monetary debt has had on all of us. We keep this as a dark little secret: 'This is how much interest I owe.'

  

  Rami Malek
  • Technology
  • Dark
  • Debt

• Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt.

  

  Charles Horace Mayo
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Science

• If you look at all the great shot-blockers of all time, they had length, and they had instincts. Even when you look at guards, like Dwyane Wade. He's one of the best shot-blocking guards ever, and he has great instincts. He's kind of cat-like.

  

  Mohamed Bamba
  • Look
  • Instincts
  • Length

• At one point, I had lost my confidence as an actor, and working again was tough. I started stammering due to lack of confidence. It took time, but things became better.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Time
  • Lost
  • Confidence

• After nine or 10 years of being interviewed, you start wanting to team up with the reporter and get the job done.

  

  John Travolta
  • Up
  • Done
  • Job

• Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Actors
  • Preparation
  • Percent

• If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Actors
  • Jobs
  • Talking