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Kevin Spacey

(1959) Theatre Director United States

327 quotes in 1572 categories

He warns that comparing anyone to Shakespeare can be extremely dangerous. He says the audience craves stories and that actors should chase roles with all reasonable effort. He also notes how his theatre background shapes his work in film, TV, and games.

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Kevin Spacey is a theatre director from the United States, best known for Kevin Spacey on Richard II (Shakespeare on Stage).

Quick Facts About Kevin Spacey

Born: July 26, 1959
Nationality: United States
Profession: Theatre Director
Notable works: Kevin Spacey on Richard II (Shakespeare on Stage)

About Kevin Spacey

He has won two Academy Awards, a BAFTA, a Golden Globe, a Tony and two Laurence Olivier Awards, and has been nominated for twelve Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2015 he was named an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Awards & Honors

Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Tony Awards BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor MTV Movie Award for Best Villain

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Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor Society of London Theatre Special Award Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire British Academy Television Award for Best International Programme star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Quotes by Kevin Spacey

I love doing impressions.

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Life's all about perceptions.

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I dont even think in terms of ambition.

Ambition

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Film is very condensed.

Cinema

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Im not revolted by Washington.

Revolution

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I don't watch rugby.

Rugby

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I am not an image. I am a human being.

Human

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Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

Elephant

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You can't win a marathon without putting some bandaids on your nipples!

Boobs

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I love producing, I love bringing things together.

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It's interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.

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Im able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie.

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I'm not going to make general comments about the British press.

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Sometimes it's the crazy people who turn out to be not so crazy.

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I guess I've been training in the theater for as long as I can remember.

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Nature's message is clear: we can't keep doing what we're doing now.

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It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong,…

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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.

Dailies

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Im attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.

Audience

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Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.

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I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when…

Gentleman

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People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box

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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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Some politicians that I've seen have been brilliant with the public. They almost speak with the skill of an actor.

Actor

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I have long been a supporter of The Prince's Trust, and so when American Express asked me to launch 'Amex Be Inspired'…

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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…

Communication

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Francis Underwood was entirely based on Richard III. When Michael Dobbs wrote 'House of Cards' in the original British series, Richard III…

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What I've certainly learned is that whenever I've said anything about real politics, I've come under attack. So it's best simply to…

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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…

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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…

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There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor…

Actor

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I think that what is truly unfortunate is when an entire party makes a decision that they're going to block every single…

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People sometimes say, "Isn't it boring, isn't it always the same? It's the same lines." I go, "Well, do you play tennis?…

Analogies

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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…

Actors

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I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me. But it's hard to stay mad when there's so…

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The fact is that HBO is doing the kind of films and the kind of stories that the movie industry used to…

Actor

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A couple of clues came my way of what I might be getting myself into when I sat down with a number…

Actors

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If you go out eight times and play tennis eight times this week, yeah, it's the same rules, but it's a different…

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The thing that is always so surprising about plays written in another century is how remarkably elastic they are. When you listen…

Actuality

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Theatre is organic, film is not. Theatre you come every day and you work with a group of people and you're are…

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