Kevin Spacey Quotes
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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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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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You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.
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For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.
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I always remember is that no matter how good I might be in a movie, I'll never be any better. It's frozen. But in theatre I can be better tomorrow night, I can be better the night after that and I can be better in a week. The journey you go through as an actor is incredible.
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The process of doing a play is an organic one and the process of doing a film is totally un-organic.
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A man can convince anyone hes someone else but never himself.
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Its a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.
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I was terrible in my first play. After that experience, I had to face that I wasnt good enough to play with the big boys. I had to go away and learn, so I worked in regional theater for three years. I even understudied at the Kennedy Center.
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London is a very energising place to be.
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Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.
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It's much more interesting when you go to different places - make a left turn when nobody expects you to make a left turn, and make a right when nobody expects you to do that.
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I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?
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I always thought that, in a way, you want your Superman to be a total unknown.
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Theres nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to.
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If I'm sick of me, I can only imagine how other people feel.
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Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?
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I think that there is no doubt that every experience you have in your life, whether it's playing a character or something else, you bring that to the work.
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We have to start listening to nature now.
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I think that acting is a very humanizing profession.