Kevin Spacey Quotes
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The audience, the place youre in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.
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I actually have a number of lovely watches from the International Watch Company.
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Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and its a brand new audience for me.
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At the end of the day, storytelling is actually very simple in its origin as long as there are people who want to tell stories and there are people who want to hear them.
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Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.
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Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where youre both championing a character and youre revolted by them.
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The control is shifting because of the democratisation of the internet. My industry is very good at building walls to stop people getting in.
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In film, movies schedules are based on three things: actors availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place youre going to film in.
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It's the way I feel about acting. That we are given clues by a writer about someone's essence or persona and it's our job to try to figure out which of those clues are true, which of clues we decide to follow and which of those clues we think are red herrings, or only in the way another character thinks of that character.
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I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don't win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie.
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Well, whoever Keyser Söze is, I can tell you he is going to get gloriously drunk tonight.
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If you're lucky enough to have done well, then it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.
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I think that when you put yourself, as actors have to do, in other people's shoes, when you have to put on the costume that someone else has worn in their life, it gets much, much harder to be prejudiced against them and even to be - to not try to look at the world in a sense of "I'm not going to judge somebody. I'm going to try to understand who they are and what they're about."
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As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments.
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To look in the eyes of audiences and see the kind of naughty glee that they got with being on the inside, the audience becomes your co-conspirators.
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I cotton to the idea that people are much closer to being flawed; they have problems and dont always make the right choices.
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I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome my dogs.
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It is not about whether you are an executive, a studio or a network. If you have a story or an idea you can build a following for it.
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What's my favourite book? It changes all the time.
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The movies are not my first priority - the theater is.
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I can't imagine that anyone in Hollywood is sitting around trying to decide what actor is good or right or qualified for a role and is being denied a role because of their political views. I don't think that's the way Hollywood works. We're not living in an era of blacklisting.
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As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.
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I think what we have seen in terms of gay teenagers committing suicide because of bullying is anguishing. I think young people, if they are feeling like they are confused, need to know that there are people to talk to and that there are places they can go and not feel alone. But I feel that they have just as many rights as I do to not be bullied.
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Fundamentally, I like to accomplish things.