Kevin Spacey movie quotes

“- Ben Campbell: How come you don't play?
- Micky Rosa: Oh, I did. I played for a long time and I was the best. But I'm retired now. Take my advice, Ben, it's always best to go out when you're on top. Welcome to Vegas!”
Jim Sturgess - Ben Campbell
Kevin Spacey - Micky Rosa

“You think killing a man gives you the right to negotiate with me?”

Kevin Spacey - Chris Sabian

“I shall miss Earth, it has great potential.”
Kevin Spacey - Prot

In order to continue to exist, desire must have its objects perpetually absent. It's not the "it" that you want, it's the fantasy of "it".
Kevin Spacey - David Gale

“- Carolyn Burnham: Lester, I refuse to live like this! This is not a marriage!
- Lester Burnham: This hasn't been a marriage for years, but you were happy as long as I kept my mouth shut. Well, guess what, I've changed! And the new me whacks off when he feels horny, 'cause you're obviously not gonna help me out in that department!”
Annette Bening - Carolyn Burnham
Kevin Spacey - Lester Burnham

“- Dave Moss: He's the top man on the board so he doesn't have to sit here and listen to this shit?
- Williamson: That's correct! And as the hour is waning I suggest you those of you who are interested in a continuing job with this organization, get to work!”

Ed Harris - Dave Moss
Kevin Spacey - John Williamson

“Memories are like moonbeams, we do with them what we will.”
Kevin Spacey - Bobby Darin

“- Bob Walker: Throw me in the water and see if I can swim!
- Larry Mann: I think you're missing the point here Bob, we're about to throw you off a cliff and see if you can fly.”
Peter Facinelli - Bob Walker
Kevin Spacey - Larry Mann

“If they can't start a meeting without you, well, that's a meeting worth going to, isn't it? And that's the only kind of meeting you should ever concern yourselves with.”
Kevin Spacey - Buddy Ackerman

“- Lester Burnham: How's Jane?
- Angela Hayes: What do you mean?
- Lester Burnham: I mean, how's her life? Is she happy? Is she miserable? I'd really like to know, and she'd die before she'd ever tell me about it.
- Angela Hayes: She's... she's really happy. She thinks she's in love.
- Lester Burnham: Good for her.”

Kevin Spacey - Lester Burnham
Mena Suvari - Angela Hayes

“How do you shoot the devil in the back? What if you miss?”
Kevin Spacey - Verbal

“- Keaton: His name's Verbal. Verbal Kint.
- McManus: Verbal?
- Keaton: Yeah.
- Verbal: 'Roger', really. People say I talk too much.
- Hockney: Yeah, I was just gonna tell you to shut up.”
Gabriel Byrne - Keaton
Stephen Baldwin - McManus
Kevin Spacey - Verbal
Kevin Pollak - Hockney

“- Danny Roman: You working?
- Chris Sabian: Sort of. I was negotiating a truce between my wife and daughter.
- Danny Roman: Then I'm proved to be easy by comparison.
- Chris Sabian: It wouldn't surprise me in the least.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Danny Roman
Kevin Spacey - Chris Sabian

“Fantasies have to be unrealistic because the moment, the second that you get what you seek, you don't, you can't want it anymore.”
Kevin Spacey - David Gale

“I just can't believe we're going to walk into certain death.”

Kevin Spacey - Verbal

“- Verbal: Can I get some coffee?
- Dave Kujan: In a while. Let's talk about the lineup.
- Verbal: I'm really thirsty. I used to dehydrate as a kid. One time it got so bad my piss came out like snot. I'm not kidding, it was all thick and gooey.”
Kevin Spacey - Verbal
Chazz Palminteri - Dave Kujan

“- Bobby Darin: My momma used to tell me a story when I was a kid that in the Middle Ages, one of the knights in King Arthur's court, he laid down his sword between himself and Guinevere, and he promised that he would never cross over to the other side.
- Sandra Dee: Really?
- Bobby Darin: I am laying down this sword between us.”
Kevin Spacey - Bobby Darin
Kate Bosworth - Sandra Dee

“You not only have a gifted mind, but you're also composed. You don't give in to your emotion. You think logically. Ben, you were born for this.”
Kevin Spacey - Micky Rosa

“Washington is like Hollywood, but with uglier faces.”
Kevin Spacey - Jack Abramoff

“- Carolyn Burnham: Don't you mess with me, mister, or I'll divorce you so fast it'll make your head spin!
- Lester Burnham: On what grounds? I'm not a drunk, I don't fuck other women, I don't mistreat you, I've never hit you... I don't even try to touch you since you've made it so abundantly clear just how unnecessary you consider me to be! But...” (continue)(continue reading)
Annette Bening - Carolyn Burnham
Kevin Spacey - Lester Burnham

“Mediocrity in your schools. It's in your dreams. It's in your family. And those of us who know this - those of us who understand the disease of the dull - we do something about it. We do more because we have to.”
Kevin Spacey - Jack Abramoff

- Trevor McKinney: Were you just being nice?
- Eugene Simonet: About what?
- Trevor McKinney: About my idea. Do you think it's good, or were you just being teachery?
- Eugene Simonet: "Teachery"?
- Trevor McKinney: Bullshitting.
Haley Joel Osment - Trevor McKinney
Kevin Spacey - Eugene Simonet

“- Airplane Woman: Aren't you an actor?
- Albert T. Fitzgerald: Aren't we all, dear.”
Angela Paton - Airplane Woman
Kevin Spacey - Albert T. Fitzgerald

“All right, look, Ben. I'm not gonna lie to you. You're good, you're very, very good. But you did exactly what I told you not to. You got emotional and then you got stupid. Now you tell me why in the world I'd ever get back in business with you.”
Kevin Spacey - Micky Rosa

“Whoever controls technology controls the world. The Roman empire ruled the world because they built roads. The British empire ruled the world because they built ships. America; the atom bomb. And so on and so forth.”
Kevin Spacey - Lex Luthor