It's always the big question in our lives if you have a lot of success. What do you do with it? Buy more houses, buy more cars, buy more stuff, be wealthy and distant and unengaged? Or do you take all that good fortune that has come towards you and spread the love, do something with it?

— Kevin Spacey

Maybe there are people who are gamers who haven't seen movies I have made, or the movies I have made no impression on them at all.

— Kevin Spacey

My life will change, because I want it to change; and also because this is something I'm committed to doing and that I believe my life has been leading towards.

— Kevin Spacey

My mother always, always, always thought that I was going to be famous. Thought that I was going to win Oscars. In fact, I believe I accepted the Oscar as a ketchup bottle many a time in front of my mother in the kitchen. 'I'd like to thank the Academy,' I said with a ketchup bottle.

— Kevin Spacey

My mother was sarcastic and delightful and, trust me, quite remarkable.

— Kevin Spacey

Partisan rancor and party politics and ideology have got in the way of compromise - and compromise is the only thing that has ever made politics successful.

— Kevin Spacey

Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young people to develop communication/collaboration skills, let alone improving their own confidence.

— Kevin Spacey

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

— Kevin Spacey

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

— Kevin Spacey

The relationship with the cast has everything to do with how a performance develops, and in a sense that while you're discovering a play in the course of rehearsal with the director, you're also discovering it with your fellow actors. We're all in it together.

— Kevin Spacey