Kevin Spacey Quotes
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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, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.
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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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As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments.
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Nature's message is clear: we can't keep doing what we're doing now.
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I dont categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I dont judge; I just play them.
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The 24 Hour Plays is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.
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Its interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.
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I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.
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I've done big studio films and the big studio films I've done, I've tried to do the interesting ones and the ones where I could live with myself in the morning.
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It's Hard to Stay Mad When There's So Much Beauty in the World
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Secret Cinema has created a new way of experiencing film. The fusion of film and theatre allows for a much more powerful experience and adds an incredibly unique dimension for the audience. It certainly did for me. I was blown away
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For kids growing up now, there's no difference watching 'Avatar' on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching 'Game of Thrones' on their computer. It's all content. It's just story.
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To know what you want, to understand why you're doing it, to dedicate every breath in your body to achieve... If you feel you have something to give, if you feel that your particular talent is worth developing, is worth caring for then there's nothing you can`t achieve.
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I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.
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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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And I certainly won't lay out areas of my life that I think are just private.
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I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.
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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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I am not an image. I am a human being.
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But I feel that I have a responsibility to help the film and I have relations with the studio and with those who put up the money so that I can tell a story that I believe in.
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You are not just, "This is the way I play it every night." You are constantly finding new ways in, new attacks, "I want to try it this way. Maybe this scene is affecting that scene. I want to attack this scene differently."
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I'm lucky if I find one movie a year that's worth doing, and when I do find one, it usually only takes 20-30 days to shoot.
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As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.
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The audience has spoken. They want stories. They’re dying for them. They’re rooting for us to give the right thing. And they will talk about it, binge on it, carry it with them on the bus and to the hairdresser, force it on their friends, tweet, blog, Facebook, make fan pages, silly GIFs, and god knows what else about it..
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There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.
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We have to start listening to nature now.
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Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow... Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.
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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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Theatre is organic, film is not. Theatre you come every day and you work with a group of people and you're are all up for it and you all get to do the whole thing every night, be it two hours or three hours. In film you work in two or three minute bits and it's never in chronological order and then someone takes that away and makes it look like it all happened, or that you gave that performance.
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Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and its a brand new audience for me.
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