Kevin Spacey Quotes
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.
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Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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I was in one of the first sitcoms that had a lot of Asians in it. It was called 'Gung Ho' on ABC.
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The score, which comes often quite later in a film, can help reinvigorate your emotional engagement with it.
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Pointing forward in time, we see in Plato the first detailed formulation in Western thought of themes that would persist and be developed further in the classical philosophical tradition, from Aristotle to Augustine to the Scholastics: that the material world points beyond itself to an eternal source; that things have immutable forms or essences; that the foundation of morality is to be found in this source and in these essences; that human beings have immaterial souls; that all of this is knowable through reason, and that knowing it is the highest end of philosophy and science.
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In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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I love producing, I love bringing things together.
