Kevin Spacey Quotes

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Kevin Spacey

Profession : Actor

Birth : July 26, 1959

I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.

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

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I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.

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I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected.

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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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The fact is that HBO is doing the kind of films and the kind of stories that the movie industry used to do. You look at a lot of the specialty sections of studios that have gone under... and there's no doubt in my mind why filmmakers and screenwriters and actors are ending up at a place like HBO. They do it better than anybody.

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If you wanna compete, you've got to get into the original content game.

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I believe if you go to a movie theatre, and you see something you think is incredible, if you walk out of the theatre and there was a bin in the lobby of DVDs of the film you just watched, you would buy four of them - one for you and three for your friends.

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The less you know about me, the easier it is to convince you that I am that character on screen.

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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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To look in the eyes of audiences and see the kind of naughty glee that they got with being on the inside, the audience becomes your co-conspirators.

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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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Why is 'Game of Thrones' the most pirated show in the history of TV? Because people can't get it fast enough, that's why.

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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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People don't tend to hassle me because when I've got a hat on, I look like a banker. I'm just a plain guy.

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I don't live a lie. You have to understand that people who choose not to discuss their personal lives are not living a lie. That is a presumption that people jump to.

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My mother always, always, always thought that I was going to be famous. Thought that I was going to win Oscars. In fact, I believe I accepted the Oscar as a ketchup bottle many a time in front of my mother in the kitchen. 'I'd like to thank the Academy,' I said with a ketchup bottle.

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I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

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The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before.

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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 a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.

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