Kevin Spacey movie quotes

“All beings have the capacity to cure themselves, Mark. This is something we've known on K-PAX for millions of years.”
Kevin Spacey - Prot

“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.”
Kevin Spacey - John Doe

“- John Doe: It's more comfortable for you to label me as insane.
- Mills: It's very comfortable.”
Kevin Spacey - John Doe
Brad Pitt - Mills

“- Angela Hayes: How are you?
- Lester Burnham: God, it's been a long time since anybody asked me that... I'm great.
- Angela Hayes: I've gotta go to the bathroom.
- Lester Burnham: ... I'm great.”
Mena Suvari - Angela Hayes
Kevin Spacey - Lester Burnham

“You can print money, manufacture diamonds, and people are a dime a dozen, but they'll always need land. It's the one thing they're not making any more of.”

Kevin Spacey - Lex Luthor

“- Kitty Kowalski: Your friends give me the creeps.
- Lex Luthor: Prison is a creepy place, Kitty, and one needs to make creepy friends in order to survive. On the inside, even my talents were worth less than a carton of cigarettes and a sharp piece of metal in your pocket.”
Parker Posey - Kitty Kowalski
Kevin Spacey - Lex Luthor

“The universe will expand, then it will collapse back on itself, then will expand again. It will repeat this process forever. What you don't you know is that when the universe expands again, everything will be as it is now.”
Kevin Spacey - Prot

“Nothing wrong with a man taking pleasure in his work. I won't deny my own personal desire to turn each sin against the sinner.”
Kevin Spacey - John Doe

“The trick is they'll never beat you if you stick together and stay loyal.”
Kevin Spacey - Michael Lynch

Remember those posters that said "Today is the first day of the rest of your life"? Well, that's true of every day but one - the day you die.
Kevin Spacey - Lester Burnham

“I travel light. That's a joke, Mark. You humans - there's just no sense of humor.”
Kevin Spacey - Prot

- Prot: Why is a soap bubble round?
- Dr. Mark Powell: "Why is a soap bubble round?".
- Prot: You know, for an educated person, Mark, you repeat things quite a bit. Are you aware of that? A soap bubble is round because it is the most energy-efficient configuration. Similarly, on your planet I look like you. On K-PAX I look like a K-PAXian.
Kevin Spacey - Prot
Jeff Bridges - Dr. Mark Powell

“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist.”
Kevin Spacey - Verbal

“Out here it's kill your parents, fuck your friends, and have a nice day.”
Kevin Spacey - Buddy Ackerman

“They wanted me to die, knowing the key to my freedom was out there somewhere!”
Kevin Spacey - David Gale

“- Jack Vincennes: Why in the world do you wanna go digging any deeper into the Nite Owl killings, Lieutenant?
- Ed Exley: Rollo Tamasi. Rollo was a purse snatcher. My father ran into him off duty, and he shot my father six times and got away clean. No one even knew who he was.”
Kevin Spacey - Jack Vincennes
Guy Pearce - Ed Exley

“I used to imagine that I'd been given to the wrong family at birth, and that somewhere in the world my real people longed for me. From where my father stood, my failure to dog-paddle was only the first of many failures. Failure to speak clearly, failure to sit up straight, failure to make friends every time we moved to another dreary upstate...” (continue)(continue reading)
Kevin Spacey - Quoyle

“- Sandra Dee: I've never worked with somebody so unprofessional in my life. I mean, have you ever even acted before?
- Bobby Darin: Well, I'm learning but let me tell you something, blondie, you're not exactly Audrey Hepburn.”
Kate Bosworth - Sandra Dee
Kevin Spacey - Bobby Darin

Yes, I am "nouveau riche”, but then, it's the "riche" that counts, now isn't it?
Kevin Spacey - Jim Williams

“- Buddy: You wanna talk big directors? Think Attenborough, think Spielberg, think Lean.
- Guy: Lean's dead.
- Buddy: No he's not, don't you ever say that. He's just unavailable.”
Kevin Spacey - Buddy Ackerman
Frank Whaley - Guy

“Truth, like art, is in the eye of the beholder. You believe what you choose and I'll believe what I know.”
Kevin Spacey - Jim Williams

“- Mr. Smiley's Manager: I don't think you'd fit in here.
- Lester Burnham: I have fast food experience.
- Mr. Smiley's Manager: Yeah, like twenty years ago!
- Lester Burnham: Well, I'm sure there have been amazing technological advances in the industry, but surely you must have some sort of training program. It seems unfair to presume I won't be...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dennis Anderson - Mr. Smiley's Manager
Kevin Spacey - Lester Burnham

“- Buddy: It's Yom Kippur, you idiot.
- Guy: Oh, I didn't realize Ackerman was a Jewish name.
- Buddy: It's Jewish enough, especially when the big players are involved. Besides, I have a sudden need to atone for my sins.”

Kevin Spacey - Buddy Ackerman
Frank Whaley - Guy

“- Carolyn Burnham: Buddy, this is my...
- Lester Burnham: Her husband. We've met before, but something tells me you're going to remember me this time.”

Annette Bening - Carolyn Burnham
Kevin Spacey - Lester Burnham

“To a cop the explanation is never that complicated. It's always simple. There's no mystery to the street, no arch criminal behind it all. If you got a dead body and you think his brother did it, you're gonna find out you're right.”
Kevin Spacey - Verbal