421 Quotes by Kevin Spacey

I don’t want to show deleted scenes. I don’t like an audience looking at what the movie might have been – if it’s in the movie, it’s in the movie.

I never doubted at all. If you ever doubt then you are in trouble. I never thought: ‘I should do this or that in case I don’t make it.’ I never had a back-up plan.

With every job, you should have something to lose, something to gain, something to learn.

I’ve been around politics a long time. I’ve seen it at its best and its worst, been at so many events, listened to private conversations versus public speaking, understood the game of it, and in many ways the theatrics.

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.

If I’m sick of me, I can only imagine how other people feel.

Over the years, I’ve been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I’ve tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected.

I’m a relatively ugly character who’s done pretty damn well in film.

I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don’t win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie.