Kevin Spacey Quotes

“I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.”

“I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.”

“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.”

“I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.”

“It's much more interesting when you go to different places - make a left turn when nobody expects you to make a left turn, and make a right when nobody expects you to do that.”

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

“Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.”

“Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.”

“The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you will live through again and again, forever. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around. Because this time is all you have.”

“You can't turn a "no" to a "yes" without a "maybe" in between.”