421 Quotes by Kevin Spacey

If you haven’t turned rebel by twenty you’ve got no heart; if you haven’t turned establishment by thirty you’ve got no brains!

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.

I’m not someone who’s led my life trying to get publicity; I’d rather do my work and go home.

My job is to interpret. I’m an interpreter. I can add things and bring unique qualities to the role that the writer may not have thought of, but someone else created the fundamental idea.

We’re all victims of our own hubris at times.

Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing – which is a more idealised version of democracy – people are fascinated by politics.

I don’t know who Keyser Soze is, but whoever he is, he is going to get gloriously drunk tonight.

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.”

Our job, you know, in the entertainment profession is to try to illuminate and show people all sides of humanity, and it doesn’t just mean that you can only do movies that are only about the good parts of us. You have to be able to eliminate the bad parts.