Kevin Spacey Quotes
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I just want it to be better, I just want to be better, but this is very encouraging.
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[Washington, DC] feels like you're watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don't believe them, I don't believe what they say, I don't think they're being absolutely sincere. I think it's performance art. And most of them are bad actors.
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Fundamentally, I like to accomplish things.
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Its extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.
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What's my favourite book? It changes all the time.
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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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For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be.
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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 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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The greatest sound in the theater is silence.
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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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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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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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Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.
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I accept the fact that some things dont go the way you hope.
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I am not an image. I am a human being.
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The most important definition of an actor, the job of the actor, is to serve the writer, not yourself. Way too many actors serve themselves.
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Talent is only interesting if it's challenged.
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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.
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I have never played a game in my life.
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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 want to bring theatre to a new generation, using the tools available to us, including taking it out to them on film and with new technology, but that is just so they can discover theatre. I want them to come in and sit in a theatre. This is the way to plant seeds.
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It's the kind of democratization of the Internet that has led to the breaking down of barriers into the creative arts.
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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.