Kevin Spacey Quotes
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I dont even think in terms of ambition.
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I have never played a game in my life.
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I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage my ideas and energies.
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Talent is one thing, it is how you nurture and develop it, and never walk away from it. You can be rich, successful, you win awards, but it can always be better.
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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was making us believe that he's not real.
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Im always taken aback by things that are successful that I think are just crap, and then Im completely surprised when things I do end up being successful because you walk into things and you never know Its just really remarkable.
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You risk working with this director, you risk making this movie, you risk working with another actor you don't know. It makes your heart beat faster. And it keeps you interested.
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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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Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.
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I never doubted at all. If you ever doubt then you are in trouble. I never thought: 'I should do this or that in case I don't make it.' I never had a back-up plan.
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Talent is only interesting if it's challenged.
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Let's let people live their lives and do it the way they want to do it.
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You learn every single day when youre running a company. You learn as you go.
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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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The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty.
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I suppose the most important thing is to stay interested. It's very easy in life if you get to a place where you're successful to hit the same groove on the record player over and over again because it's safe.
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I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.
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I accept the fact that some things dont go the way you hope.
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The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.
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Clean, sustainable energy is crucial and cannot wait.
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You must find a way to express your ideas and compel your audience to react through the idea itself, and then figuring out what the best representative of that idea may be, and bringing it to life.
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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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You've got to trust the ground you're standing on and the work you've done in telling your story. The goal should be to bring those thousands of people - viewers - together and make them one. When you feel that happening, it's usually in silence, not applause or laughter.
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Sometimes its the crazy people who turn out to be not so crazy.