Kevin Spacey Quotes
It's extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.
Spacey, Kevin. Interview. The New York Times, The New York Times Company, 2011.
The statement was in response to criticism about the literary quality of the emerging writers of New Masses. The magazine, a Marxist / Communist-oriented publication was supposed to provide a literary outlet for worker-writers whose views were so suppressed that they could never develop their writing skills. Despite Gold’s efforts and many attempts to find working class writers, most of the quality literature in New Masses came from liberal, middle-class writers, known before they ever published in New Masses. These included Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Katherine Ann Porter, Lewis Mumford, Clifton Fadiman and many others.
Kevin Spacey Fowler KBE is an American actor, producer, and singer. Spacey began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, obtaining supporting roles in film and television. Spacey's first roles in film were in Mike Nichols' Heartburn (1986), and Working Girl (1988). He gained critical acclaim in the 1990s, with an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the neo-noir crime thriller The Usual Suspects (1995) and an Academy Award for Best Actor for the midlife-crisis themed drama American Beauty (1999). Spacey's other starring roles have included Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), the comedy-drama film Swimming with Sharks (1994), the psychological thriller Seven (1995), the neo-noir crime film L.A. Confidential (1997), the drama Pay It Forward (2000), the science fiction-mystery film K-PAX (2001), the musical biopic Beyond the Sea (2004), the superhero film Superman Returns (2006), and the action film Baby Driver (2017).
