Kevin Spacey Quotes
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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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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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As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.
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I love producing, I love bringing things together.
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The movies are not my first priority - the theater is.
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You can't turn a "no" to a "yes" without a "maybe" in between.
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I have done films where we all thought the director didn't know what he was doing and it is going to be a gobble gobble turkey. And you go and watch it and it is great.
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Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young people to develop communication/collaboration skills, let alone improving their own confidence.
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Gaming is going into storytelling. It was a new audience.
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Sometimes I'll be flipping through the channels and I'll see a movie I'm in. And I'll probably stop and think, 'Sure, I'll watch this.'
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For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be.
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Fundamentally, I like to accomplish things.
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Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.
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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 have talked to more people who are in politics who have said to me, "[House of Cards] is closer than you can imagine. It's the most accurate description of how politics actually works that we've ever seen." I mean, West Wing - beautiful, wonderful idea of how democracy should work. But I've had more people in politics say they think House of Cards is closer. I - don't know whether to take that as a compliment or a sad state of affairs.
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If it were not for people who stepped forward and gave me opportunities at a time when I had not proved myself at all, believe me, I would not have a career.
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Theres no doubt that some of the greatest films ever made have come from the theater. Its all a matter of finding a way to make the theater experience watchable on film.
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I am not an image. I am a human being.
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Fortunately for me, I don't come from the school where you only measure success by how much money something makes or whether it has a big box-office weekend. I measure it by how much people actually participate in the process.
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I have never played a game in my life.
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The greatest sound in the theater is silence.
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Talent is only interesting if it's challenged.
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If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.
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I'm lucky if I find one movie a year that's worth doing, and when I do find one, it usually only takes 20-30 days to shoot.