Kevin Spacey quote: "When you're just able to distill it down to the idea and the feeling that a character is experiencing in a scene, it can become very, very razor sharp and really clean and really efficient and simple. And sometimes it takes twenty-five years to learn how to be simple."

I'm not going to make general comments about the British press.
KEVIN SPACEY

I am now a commander of the British Empire.
KEVIN SPACEY

Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are ...
KEVIN SPACEY

No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story.
KEVIN SPACEY

I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. ...
KEVIN SPACEY

I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.
KEVIN SPACEY

As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of th...
KEVIN SPACEY

I have long been a supporter of The Prince's Trust, and so when American Express asked me to lau...
KEVIN SPACEY

I might have lived in England for the last several years, but I'm still an American citizen and ...
KEVIN SPACEY

I was on a couple of scholarships. I had a job in the school administrative office. I had a job as a...
KEVIN SPACEY

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time...
KEVIN SPACEY

I've always found it strange that a director can hire any designer he wants from any country. Bu...
KEVIN SPACEY

After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in th...
KEVIN SPACEY

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elev...
KEVIN SPACEY

Working in film tends to isolate actors - it's your close-up; it's all about you.
KEVIN SPACEY

Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where you're both championing a character and yo...
KEVIN SPACEY

Where the gaming world is going - and certainly Activision proved it by hiring me - is being willing...
KEVIN SPACEY

I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don&#...
KEVIN SPACEY

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

To look in the eyes of audiences and see the kind of naughty glee that they got with being on the in...
KEVIN SPACEY

People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the a...
KEVIN SPACEY

For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening at...
KEVIN SPACEY

If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesn't that show an incredible...
KEVIN SPACEY

Clearly the success of the Netflix model, releasing the entire season of 'House of Cards' at...
KEVIN SPACEY

It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 2...
KEVIN SPACEY

It's always the big question in our lives if you have a lot of success. What do you do with it? ...
KEVIN SPACEY

I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun...
KEVIN SPACEY

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reaso...
KEVIN SPACEY

Both 'Consenting Adults' and 'Glengarry Glen Ross' revolve around the economic stres...
KEVIN SPACEY

If you're lucky enough to do well, it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.
KEVIN SPACEY

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and th...
KEVIN SPACEY

Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of the...
KEVIN SPACEY

As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.
KEVIN SPACEY

I would love to do much more singing; it's just one of those things where I can't quite desc...
KEVIN SPACEY

Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow.....
KEVIN SPACEY

Maybe there are people who are gamers who haven't seen movies I have made, or the movies I have ...
KEVIN SPACEY

The process of doing a play is an organic one, and the process of doing a film is totally inorganic.
KEVIN SPACEY

If you're watching a film on your television, is it no longer a film because you're not watc...
KEVIN SPACEY

For kids growing up now, there's no difference watching 'Avatar' on an iPad or watching ...
KEVIN SPACEY

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.
KEVIN SPACEY

I remember meeting the likes of Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart for the first time and being complet...
KEVIN SPACEY

I became a bit of a jerk. A kind of a nasty jerk.
KEVIN SPACEY

If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections....
KEVIN SPACEY

It's the details and the human element that makes 'Recount' entertaining. Even though we...
KEVIN SPACEY

There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose.
KEVIN SPACEY

You can almost hear people saying, 'We're going to make a movie about an election' and &...
KEVIN SPACEY

My admiration for 'Mary Tyler Moore' is very, very big because they went out on top.
KEVIN SPACEY

I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing mani...
KEVIN SPACEY

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

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors' theatre, a home for great talent and m...
KEVIN SPACEY

It's one of those films that kind of defies the 10-second blurb,
KEVIN SPACEY

My doggy had to go.
KEVIN SPACEY

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by th...
KEVIN SPACEY

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and th...
KEVIN SPACEY

I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.
KEVIN SPACEY

Resurrection Blues,
KEVIN SPACEY

I sense a little Brian Boitano in there.
KEVIN SPACEY

The fact is that HBO is doing the kind of films and the kind of stories that the movie industry used...
KEVIN SPACEY

I'm used to people thinking I'm nuts. And you know what? I kind of love it.
KEVIN SPACEY

I don't live a lie. You have to understand that people who choose not to discuss their personal ...
KEVIN SPACEY

Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want t...
KEVIN SPACEY

My mother always, always, always thought that I was going to be famous. Thought that I was going to ...
KEVIN SPACEY

Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to mai...
KEVIN SPACEY

I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome m...
KEVIN SPACEY

Life's all about perceptions.
KEVIN SPACEY

Give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price, a...
KEVIN SPACEY

I couldn't imagine something asking as much of me as 'House Of Cards.' It's a great ...
KEVIN SPACEY

No matter how good you might be in a movie, you'll never be any better. But in a play, I can be ...
KEVIN SPACEY

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

Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I ...
KEVIN SPACEY

Edward Norton and I have known each other awhile. I just think he's the real deal, supremely tal...
KEVIN SPACEY

I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded.
KEVIN SPACEY

I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage ...
KEVIN SPACEY

Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.
KEVIN SPACEY

The only real experiences I've had with therapists were the ones who were working with me and my...
KEVIN SPACEY

It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if y...
KEVIN SPACEY

I absolutely love spending time with my family.
KEVIN ALEJANDRO

From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started openi...
KEVIN JAMES

My favorite movie of all time is 'Rocky.'
KEVIN JAMES

Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.
KEVIN JAMES

I really wasn't a class clown.
KEVIN JAMES

I've always had something in my heart where I root for guys who struggle with women.
KEVIN JAMES

Back in '93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then.
KEVIN JAMES

Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the s...
KEVIN JAMES

I try to connect with the everyday, every guy.
KEVIN JAMES

You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.
KEVIN JAMES

It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.
KEVIN JAMES

I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfo...
KEVIN JAMES

I don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are lick...
KEVIN JAMES

Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.
KEVIN JAMES

I've always been the guy who doesn't necessarily get it with women. A woman would have to sa...
KEVIN JAMES

Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next...
KEVIN JAMES

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.
KEVIN JAMES

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.
KEVIN JAMES

A song can take you to a special time in your life.
KEVIN JAMES

If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, '...
KEVIN JAMES

I could never be James Bond.
KEVIN JAMES

I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.
KEVIN JAMES

I am who I am. That's why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don't change or ...
KEVIN HART

Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.
KEVIN COSTNER

I don't have the option of getting fat. I like to try as much of our products as I can. Our samp...
KEVIN PLANK

Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one's journey is easy. It's how they handle it that...
KEVIN CONROY

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.
KEVIN GATES

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up...
KEVIN HART

Know everything about the companies and people you are going to be negotiating with. Insist on getti...
KEVIN O'LEARY

Too often, politics is like bad theater. The mass media simplifies stories and personalities into th...
KEVIN HASSETT

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.
KEVIN HART

I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.
KEVIN HART

I like playing basketball and going to the gym. I don't box, but I'll ride my bike and go jo...
KEVIN HART

I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.
KEVIN HART

I took my daughter to the father-daughter dance, and I cried like a little baby.
KEVIN HART

A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.
KEVIN HART

Being humble matters.
KEVIN HART

You get one life. I'm going to embrace mine.
KEVIN HART

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.
KEVIN HART

Everybody that's successful lays a blueprint out.
KEVIN HART

People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.
KEVIN HART

I didn't work hard to sit down and not work.
KEVIN HART

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.
KEVIN HART

It's a well-known fact that tall people are evil.
KEVIN HART

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine.
KEVIN HART

I don't care how busy I am - I will always make time for what's most important to me.
KEVIN HART

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you're staying in a small box with a smal...
KEVIN HART

I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in pr...
KEVIN GATES

I adapt and I adjust to whatever environment I'm in.
KEVIN GATES

I don't sleep much. I don't sleep much - I work, I work, I work.
KEVIN GATES

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.
KEVIN GATES

I always knew who I was, and I always ran from my true purpose... I know what my job is. And I alway...
KEVIN GATES

I like Peter Tosh, Bob Marley of course. All of Capleton, Sizzla, Frisco Kid, Buju Banton.
KEVIN GATES

What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever - I rap about...
KEVIN GATES

I don't want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.
KEVIN GATES

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don't have any flaws.
KEVIN GATES

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way ...
KEVIN GATES

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don't really know me. You just ...
KEVIN GATES

I don't believe in conspiracy theories. I'm just a cold-blooded investigator.
KEVIN GATES

I look at other people's lives, and some people feel like they're too old to play with toys....
KEVIN GATES

I'm super serious about music. That's, like, the only thing I'm serious about.
KEVIN GATES

I used to really love Fiend, but he stopped. He just stopped. Every time he had a project, every pro...
KEVIN GATES

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.
KEVIN GATES

I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.
KEVIN GATES

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.
KEVIN GATES

I don't let the left hand know what the right hand is doing.
KEVIN GATES

I have trouble with letting go. That's my problem.
KEVIN GATES

When you stand for something, you've got to stand for it all the way, not half way.
KEVIN GATES

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you're above everybody else.
KEVIN HART

I'm not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That's a coward. Th...
KEVIN GARNETT

If you want a friend, buy a dog.
KEVIN O'LEARY

The Constitution's Preamble, its renowned introductory passage, was written by a man with a peg-...
KEVIN BLEYER

Get up, groan, write a bit, moan, eat breakfast, write some more, cycle my bike through the Sligo hi...
KEVIN BARRY

When somebody asks for a favor involving information, if you don't know him or can't verify ...
KEVIN MITNICK

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, 'Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with...
KEVIN HART

The good thing about having chemistry is, when you get to the improv section of a scene, you've ...
KEVIN HART

My worst fashion faux pas: probably orange shoes with white pants. I thought I looked spectacular.
KEVIN O'LEARY

Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.
KEVIN JAMES

Penetrating a company's security often starts with the bad guy obtaining some piece of informati...
KEVIN MITNICK

Walking is my main method of relaxation. I don't go over my lines or try to solve the world'...
KEVIN WHATELY

What I loved about 'Summer' was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful futur...
KEVIN WILLIAMSON

I'm an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I'll go stand in the corner...
KEVIN GATES

I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances...
KEVIN COSTNER

When you're an investor, you can look at the quantitative and qualitative elements of an investm...
KEVIN O'LEARY

Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefe...
KEVIN O'LEARY

Rejection is a common occurrence. Learning that early and often will help you build up the tolerance...
KEVIN FEIGE

To research my book 'Me the People' - in which I have rewritten the entire Constitution of t...
KEVIN BLEYER

Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull.
KEVIN MCCARTHY

When you're travelling, your day is jam-packed. I just don't have time to whip out a PC all ...
KEVIN O'LEARY

You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people wil...
KEVIN SMITH

My first real business was bootlegging T-shirts - I was just a dumb kid. You go to a concert and pay...
KEVIN PLANK

I haven't tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice.
KEVIN COSTNER

I would rather eat broken glass and drink iodine than do the dishes.
KEVIN CANTY

I used to go to the Hollywood YMCA when I first came here, and I was standing in front of the mirror...
KEVIN NEALON

A wide variety of devices beyond personal computers are arriving, many of which will be used to brow...
KEVIN LYNCH

When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get ...
KEVIN HART

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid's a hard worker, ...
KEVIN HART

I've always been drawn to the Edwardian period in England. To me, it seems like such a fascinati...
KEVIN KWAN

I'm so lucky that 'The Vampire Diaries' happened. I'm so lucky that Warner Bros. pay...
KEVIN WILLIAMSON

I'm a health nut, but when I eat, I go hard. I'm a Buffalo wing magnet, a sandwich fanatic, ...
KEVIN HART

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you're going to bump into somebody that make...
KEVIN HART

Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries.
KEVIN KEEGAN

'X-Men 1' - I did a cameo.
KEVIN FEIGE

My acting coach I've got here, Richard Lawson, he's been doing good, just telling me to calm...
KEVIN DURANT

I've had to calm down, I have a kid! It is amazing. It's the best thing ever. Nothing better...
KEVIN PIETERSEN

I think a book is your calling card, your business card.
KEVIN O'LEARY

Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.
KEVIN SMITH

As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.
KEVIN MCCARTHY

I started my first business when I was 19. I learned a valuable lesson as a small business owner. Yo...
KEVIN MCCARTHY

There's nothing you can do about busted ribs. You just have to wait for them to pop back into pl...
KEVIN MCCLOUD

I would also would have liked the part of the Bus Driver.
KEVIN MCDONALD

Sports exact too harsh a toll on our beautiful women. Like engendered species, they should be protec...
KEVIN BLEYER

I think a cyber-terrorism attack is overblown, though the threat exists. I think al Qaeda and other ...
KEVIN MITNICK

You have to persevere. You have to do it. I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about I don...
KEVIN SORBO

All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent...
KEVIN MITNICK

I've always been into bodybuilding and keeping in shape, and I just challenge myself to see if I...
KEVIN NASH

It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids w...
KEVIN RICHARDSON

I don't want to be characterized as the big booster guy.
KEVIN PLANK

I still remember going to a smart restaurant in Los Angeles, and the maitre d' knew my name and ...
KEVIN WHATELY

But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of...
KEVIN KELLY

A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or euca...
KEVIN STARR

My favorite personal hockey moment was probably when Mike Bossy scored fifty goals in fifty games. H...
KEVIN CONNOLLY

Any self-respecting entrepreneur has borrowed money from their mother at some point.
KEVIN PLANK

But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of ce...
KEVIN KELLY

When you're just able to distill it down to the idea and the feeling that a character is experiencing in a scene, it can become very, very razor sharp and really clean and really efficient and simple. And sometimes it takes twenty-five years to learn how to be simple.

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When you're just able to distill it down to the idea and the feeling that a character is experiencing in a scene, it can become very, very razor sharp and really clean and really efficient and simple. And sometimes it takes twenty-five years to learn how to be simple.

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