421 Quotes by Kevin Spacey

Fortunately for me, I don’t come from the school where you only measure success by how much money something makes or whether it has a big box-office weekend. I measure it by how much people actually participate in the process.

Wanting people to listen, you can’t just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you’ll notice you’ve got their strict attention.

I’m supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I’m somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you’ve got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I’m somebody else?

Sometimes it's the crazy people who turn out to be not so crazy.

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor or actress, by the end, they've forgotten that, and they leave going, 'Wow - what an amazing play.'

Film is very condensed.

I cotton to the idea that people are much closer to being flawed; they have problems and don't always make the right choices.

I don't play villainy. I wouldn't even know how to play it.