Kevin Spacey movie quotes

“Life is a marathon and you cannot win a marathon without putting a few bandaids on your nipples!”
Kevin Spacey - Dave Harken

- Baby: One more job and I'm done.
- Doc: "One more job" and we're straight. Now I don't think I need to give you the speech about what would happen if you say no, how I could break your legs and kill everyone you love because you already know that, don't you?
- Baby: Yeah.
Ansel Elgort - Baby
Kevin Spacey - Doc

“- Micky Rosa: There's one more thing, Ben, and this is important. We're counting cards, we're not gambling. We're following a specific set of rules and playing a system.
- Ben Campbell: Right.
- Micky Rosa: Now, I've seen how crazy it can get at those tables, and sometimes, people lose control. They give in to their emotions. You will not.”
Kevin Spacey - Micky Rosa
Jim Sturgess - Ben Campbell

“Our society cannot condone men who take the law into their own hands.”
Kevin Spacey - D.A. Rufus Buckley

“We see a deadly sin on every street corner, in every home, and we tolerate it. We tolerate it because it's common, it's trivial. We tolerate it morning, noon, and night.”
Kevin Spacey - John Doe

“- Trevor McKenney: Are you saying you'll flunk us if we don't change the world?
- Eugene Simonet: Well, no. But you might just scrape by with a C.”
Haley Joel Osment - Trevor McKinney
Kevin Spacey - Eugene Simonet

“I once talked a guy out of blowing up the Sears Tower but I can't talk my wife out of the bedroom or my kid off the phone.”
Kevin Spacey - Chris Sabian

“- D.A. Rufus Buckley: Do you think two men who hang a child should be free in 10 years?
- Carl Lee Hailey: No sir.
- D.A. Rufus Buckley: Well what do you think should happen? What would be a fair sentence?”
Kevin Spacey - D.A. Rufus Buckley
Samuel L. Jackson - Carl Lee Hailey

“- Sandra Dee: Bobby, why do you sing the same songs every night? Isn't it boring?
- Bobby Darin: Well, honey, it's an act. What do you expect me to do, sing different songs every night?
- Sandra Dee: Why not? I don't do the same movies every time.”
Kate Bosworth - Sandra Dee
Kevin Spacey - Bobby Darin

“Your job is unfair to you? Grow up, way it goes. People use you? Life's unfair? Grow up, way it goes. Your girlfriend doesn't love you? Tough shit, way it goes. Your wife gets raped and shot, and they leave their unfinished beers, their... their stinking longnecks just lying there on the gr - So be it. Way it goes.”

Kevin Spacey - Buddy Ackerman

- Dave Kujan: Do you believe in him, Verbal?
- Verbal: Keaton always said "I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of him". Well I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze.

Chazz Palminteri - Dave Kujan
Kevin Spacey - Verbal

“In reality, mediocrity is where most people live. Mediocrity is the elephant in the room. It's ubiquitous.”
Kevin Spacey - Jack Abramoff

“- Lester Burnham: Well, what do you say I throw in a little sexual harassment charge, to boot?
- Brad Dupree: Against who?
- Lester Burnham: Against you. Can you prove that you didn't offer to save my job if I let you blow me?
- Brad Dupree: Man, you are one twisted fuck.
- Lester Burnham: Nope; I'm just an ordinary guy with nothing to lose.”
Kevin Spacey - Lester Burnham
Barry Del Sherman - Brad

“You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.”
Kevin Spacey

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

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

- Danny Roman: I like westerns, like Shane.
- Chris Sabian: It's interesting that you pick one where the hero dies.
- Danny Roman: What are you talking about? He doesn't die. He rides off into the sunset, and that kid says "Come back, Shane!".
- Chris Sabian: That's a common misconception, in the last frame he's slumped over on his horse.
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Samuel L. Jackson - Danny Roman
Kevin Spacey - Chris Sabian

“Life is not a movie. Good guys lose, everybody lies, and love... does not conquer all.”
Kevin Spacey - Buddy Ackerman

“It's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst.”
Kevin Spacey - Lester Burnham

- David Gale: You don't subscribe to the idea that "a good state is the one that protects its most despised members"?
- Governor Hardin: It's a nice liberal idea. But, like most nice liberal ideas, naive.
Kevin Spacey - David Gale
Michael Crabtree - Governor Hardin

“That guy is tense. Tension is a killer.”

Kevin Spacey - Verbal

“- Aggie Rockwell: You can't have a nympho do a porno, because then it wouldn't be acting, it would be real.
- Dwayne Hanson: That's the saddest thing I've ever heard.”
Suzy Amis - Aggie Rockwell
Kevin Spacey - Dwayne Hanson

“Avoid women directors. They ovulate. Do you have any idea what that does to a three month shoot?”
Kevin Spacey - Buddy Ackerman

“My name is Lester Burnham. This is my neighborhood; this is my street; this is my life. I am 42-years-old; in less than a year I will be dead. Of course I don't know that yet, and in a way, I am dead already.”
Kevin Spacey - Lester Burnham

“You know what I've learned about your planet? There's enough life on Earth to fill 50 planets. Plants, animals, people, fungi, viruses, all jostling to find their place, bouncing off each other, feeding off each other. Connected.”
Kevin Spacey - Prot