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Kevin Spacey Quotes

Total quotes: 33
“Do you want to live? Tell us what we want. Tell us what we want to hear.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 53
Tagged: Threats, Appeasement
“He had an accident when he was a kid. Still has a hum in the drum. Plays music to drown it out. And that's what makes him the best.”
— Doc, Baby Driver
Tagged: accident, hum, drum, kid, best, Music
“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.”
— Lester Burnham, American Beauty
Tagged: Dead Inside
“The fog of war. A back room within a back room....You know, it’s at times like these I wish I was Nixon, had every nook and cranny bugged.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 4: Chapter 48
Tagged: Richard Nixon, War, Wiretapping
“Give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in at a reasonable price, and the chances are they won't steal it.”
— Kevin Spacey, CNBC Transcript: Interview with Kevin Spacey and Carlos Moreira
Tagged: Piracy
“History is earned. You win the day, and then you win the day after, and you do the same thing every day until you’re dead. And you’re remembered not for the winning, but because you never lost!”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 60
Tagged: History, Winning
“Wow. I just drew a whole goddamn map in chalk while we've been standing here squawking. That's pretty fucking impressive, right?”
— Doc, Baby Driver
Tagged: Map, chalk, squawking, Impressive
“Bats: Those pigs are in hog heaven. The only way they can ID us is with a Ouija board or some shit.

Doc: Well, your name only takes four letters to spell out.”
— Doc, Baby Driver
Tagged: pigs, hog, Heaven, Ouija Board
“I’m not really in a place where my personality is so known that I can’t hide.”
— Kevin Spacey
Tagged: Acting
“Oh, don’t deny it. You’ve loved it. You don’t actually need me to stand for anything. You just need me to stand. To be the strong man. The man of action.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 64
Tagged: Strongman, Man of Action
“...you can’t just sit back and admire the view. I’ve learned you’ve got to grab the present by the balls. That’s where the American people live.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 60
Tagged: Americans, Proactive
“Look at me, jerking off in the shower….This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here.”
— Lester Burnham, American Beauty
Tagged: Jerking Off, all downhill
“The nature of promises, Linda, is that they remain immune to changing circumstances”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 1: Chapter 1
Tagged: Business Morals, TV Show Quotes, White House, Politics
“If a man is not smart enough to be able to use whatever is in front of him and still make it work...well, then...that’s just a failure of the imagination.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 54
Tagged: Smart, Imagination, Failure
“I visited your home this morning after you’d left. I tried to play husband. I tried to taste the life of a simple man. It didn’t work out, so I took a souvenir… her pretty head.”
— Kevin Spacey, Seven
Tagged: Scary Movies
“I’ve been mostly attracted to playing men who are in some kind of personal moral crisis, trying to better themselves and essentially be good people within the community.”
— Kevin Spacey, New Again: Kevin Spacey- Interview Magazine
Tagged: Acting
“In Gaffney we had our own brand of diplomacy: shake with your right hand and hold a rock in your left.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 2: Chapter 18
Tagged: Business Morals, TV Show Quotes, White House, Politics
“How could you be so stupid...to fall in love?”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 64
Tagged: Stupid, Love
“You made this bed, America. You voted for me. Are you confused? Are you afraid? Because what you thought you wanted is now here. And there you are, staring back, slackjawed, bewildered, wondering if this is what you actually asked for.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 61
Tagged: Slackjawed, Bewildered
“Where does the real power lie? The power behind the power...”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 65
Tagged: Power, Deep State
“Conscience has an unmistakable stink to it, sort of like raw onions and morning breath. But a lie stinks even more when it’s coming from someone who isn’t used to lying. It’s more like rotten eggs and horse shit.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 4: Chapter 46
Tagged: Conscience, stink, Onions, Morning Breath, Lies, Rotten Eggs, Horse Shit
“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.”
— Doc, Baby Driver
Tagged: Job, Finished, Speech, Threat, Evil
“[Lester has just caught Caroline cheating with the Real Estate King]
Carolyn Burnham: Uh, Buddy, this is my...

Lester Burnham: Her husband. We've met before, but something tells me you're going to remember me this time.”
— Lester Burnham, American Beauty
Tagged: Cheating, Cuckolding
“I would love to do much more singing, it’s just one of those things where I can’t quite describe what it feels like when you’re standing in front of a forty piece orchestra and there’s nothing between you and an audience but a microphone. It’s like strapping yourself to a locomotive, and I love it.”
— Kevin Spacey, Full interview with Kevin Spacey: 'I'm always looking for the shy kid in the corner because that was me'
Tagged: Singing, Music, Performance
“You know, if you ignore all the pomp and circumstance, the most perverse thing is I actually believe in the presidency. Its importance. What it means around the world, even symbolically. But I believe in power even more. For its own sake.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 65
Tagged: Pomp, circumstance
“There will be pain. There will be suffering. We will be confronted with the most horrific aspects of humanity. We will confront the inhuman. Evil itself. But we will triumph. It is not a war we will lose.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 4: Chapter 52
Tagged: Pain, Suffering, Triumph, Evil, War
“Of all the things I hold in high regard, rules are not one of them.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 1: Chapter 13
Tagged: Business Morals, TV Show Quotes, White House, Politics
“I will march forward, even if I have to do so alone.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 1: Chapter 10
Tagged: Business Morals, TV Show Quotes, White House, Politics
“The higher up the mountain the more treacherous the path.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 2: Chapter 16
Tagged: Business Morals, TV Show Quotes, White House, Politics
“The identity of the next President of these United States is once again in the hands of a bunch of self-serving, money-hungry, boot-licking, power-seeking politicians who can be seduced or sucker punched or blackmailed into submission. And all I need is just one more vote than the other guy.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 57
Tagged: Identity, US President, Boot-Licking, Money-Hungry, Power-seeking, Sucker-Punched, Submission
“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.

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.”
— Lester Burnham, American Beauty
Tagged: Happy, Miserable, In love
“I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn't a second at all, it stretches on forever, like an ocean of time... For me, it was lying on my back at Boy Scout camp, watching falling stars... And yellow leaves, from the maple trees, that lined our street... Or my grandmother's hands, and the way her skin seemed like paper... And the first time I saw my cousin Tony's brand new Firebird... And Janie... And Janie... And... Carolyn. I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me... but 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... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life... You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry... you will someday.”
— Lester Burnham, American Beauty
Tagged: firebird, Pissed Off, boy scout, life flashing before your eyes
“[at the dinner table]
Carolyn Burnham: Your father and I were just discussing his day at work. Why don't you tell our daughter about it, honey?

Lester Burnham: Janie, today I quit my job. And then I told my boss to go fuck himself, and then I blackmailed him for almost sixty thousand dollars. Pass the asparagus.

Carolyn Burnham: Your father seems to think this kind of behavior is something to be proud of.

Lester Burnham: And your mother seems to prefer that I go through life like a fucking prisoner while she keeps my dick in a mason jar under the sink.

Carolyn Burnham: How dare you speak to me that way in front of her. And I marvel that you can be so contemptuous of me, on the same day that you LOSE your job.

Lester Burnham: Lose it? I didn't lose it. It's not like, 'Whoops! Where'd my job go?' I QUIT. Someone pass the asparagus, please.”
— Lester Burnham, American Beauty
Tagged: Unemployment, Quitting, Mother in Law, Blackmail
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