"Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get."
-Kevin Spacey
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"Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.“
-Kevin Spacey
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"I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman."
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"Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected."
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"I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid."
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"How sweet it is!"
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