Kevin Spacey Quotes

I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.

I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy.

I made three films with Boris Karloff. He was absolutely wonderful.

People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache? He was like Colonel Thursday.

I wanted to be a district attorney and solve hidden problems or maybe even be a leper-colony missionary and save people.

I became very close with Charles Bronson and his wife, Kim. We did 'Sea Wolf' together along with Christopher Reeve. I've been lucky enough to work with some amazing, legendary actors. I worked with Rod Steiger twice, for instance.

As a little girl, I got to meet Audrey Hepburn, who took my face in her hands and suddenly make me want to be an actress.

I always hated when the studios just kind of said that anybody can act. You look at people like Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda - and I'm just talking about the male actors - there aren't a lot who can act. It's a very special talent, and I wish it were recognized as a very special talent.

I always wanted to work with Spencer Tracy, which never happened, although I knew him well. And I never worked with Cary Grant.

You can still sit under the tree where Dr. Livingstone negotiated with slave traders to set people free.

What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.

I basically read every book ever written about Marilyn Monroe.

I don't really want to have any part of getting guilty people off.

I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never stand up for her rights.

I'd love to talk to Joaquin Phoenix because he's a very private guy. Also, he's creating a new kind of sexy leading man. To me, his face is new and might be legendary someday.

Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.

If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.

The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

I'm a huge Katharine Hepburn fan.

When I wanted to be an attorney, I think I wanted to be a litigator; I wanted to be in a courtroom.

Sylvester Stallone seems like a really cool guy, and Dolph Lundgren seems awesome.

Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism... We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.

There was an old, crazy dude who used to live a long time ago. His name was Lord Buckley. And he said, a long time ago, he said, 'People--they'r e kinda like flowers, and it's been a privilege walking in your garden.' My love goes with you.

Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together. We are still too near to his greatness,' (Leo) Tolstoy (in 1908) concluded, 'but after a few centuries more our posterity will find him considerably bigger than we do. His genius is still too strong and powerful for the common understanding, just as the sun is too hot when its light beams directly on us.' (748)