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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If you're lucky enough to have done well, then it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.
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There are two things that have been happening over the last few decades in my opinion. First, there have been unbelievable, remarkable, pioneering advances in technology and, second, an equal amount of evolution in creativity. These two shifts are meeting at an intersection.
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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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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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Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where youre both championing a character and youre revolted by them.
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I've been around politics a long time. I've seen it at its best and its worst, been at so many events, listened to private conversations versus public speaking, understood the game of it, and in many ways the theatrics.
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Its extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.
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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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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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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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Well, whoever Keyser Söze is, I can tell you he is going to get gloriously drunk tonight.
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To me, getting up every single night and trying to reach out to an audience, and trying to dig deeper and further in the play to serve the writer and to understand yourself in that context is how you continue to grow and learn.
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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 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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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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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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No one should ever feel sorry for me. Ive been treated very well for the most part.
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What's my favourite book? It changes all the time.
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As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.
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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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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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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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For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be.