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Kevin Spacey

(1959) Theatre Director United States

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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 · Page 3

Meeting the person you are going to be playing is very unique.

Character

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One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.

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Gaming is going into storytelling. It was a new audience.

Audience

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My mother was sarcastic and delightful and, trust me, quite remarkable.

Delightful

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I'm able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie.

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What's my favourite book? It changes all the time.

Book

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We have to start listening to nature now.

Communication

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I think people love it when anybody acts bad; its not particular to me.

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To look in the eyes of audiences and see the kind of naughty glee that they got with being on the inside,…

Audience

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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…

Executives

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Essentially, your voice is an instrument; it's a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have…

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If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesnt that show an incredible attention span?

Attention

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I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if…

Audience

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Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not…

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President Obama will go down as having passed some of the most historic bills in the history of this country.

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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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Our job, you know, in the entertainment profession is to try to illuminate and show people all sides of humanity, and it…

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My job consists of basically masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring to the…

Contempt

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Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world -…

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We've learned the lesson that the music industry didn't learn: give people what they want, when they want it, in the form…

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It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at…

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I never wanted to go to the Old Vic and not have it survive long after I was gone. It's not about…

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My job is to interpret. I'm an interpreter. I can add things and bring unique qualities to the role that the writer…

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I'm not a writer. I marvel at writing. I am sometimes absolutely astounded when I read something and I think how in…

Astounded

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I don't even think in terms of ambition.

Ambition

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I'm used to people thinking I'm nuts. And you know what? I kind of love it.

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The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.

Football

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Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.

Art

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It's Hard to Stay Mad When There's So Much Beauty in the World

Beauty

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Talent is only interesting if it's challenged.

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As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

Actor

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And I certainly won't lay out areas of my life that I think are just private.

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Am I arrogant? I've been arrogant, sure; everybody's been arrogant.

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Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

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I dont play villainy. I wouldnt even know how to play it.

Character

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Pushing the boundaries of what is expected of you is important to me.

Boundaries

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A man can convince anyone hes someone else but never himself.

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I always thought that, in a way, you want your Superman to be a total unknown.

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The movies are not my first priority - the theater is.

Cinema

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I have wanted to have children. I do want to have children.

Children

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