Kevin Spacey movie quotes

View Quote Both my wife and daughter think I'm this gigantic loser and they're right, I have lost something. I'm not exactly sure what it is but I know I didn't always feel this... sedated. But you know what? It's never too late to get it back.

View Quote That's my wife, Carolyn. See the way the handle on her pruning shears matches her gardening clogs? That's not an accident.

View Quote 1970 Pontiac Firebird. The car I've always wanted and now I have it. I rule!

View Quote Let me tell you something, Mark. You humans, most of you, subscribe to this policy of an eye for an eye, a life for a life, which is known throughout the universe for its stupidity. Even your Buddha and your Christ had quite a different vision; but nobody's paid much attention to them, not even the Buddhists or the Christians.

View Quote Every being in the universe knows right from wrong, Mark.

View Quote Why is a soap bubble 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.

View Quote And then he showed these men of will what will really was.

View Quote I used to dehydrate as a kid. One time it got so bad my piss came out like snot. I'm not kidding, it was thick and gooey.

View Quote Big fat guy, I mean like orca fat.

View Quote [From one of John Doe's journals] On the subway today, a man came up to me to start a conversation. He made small talk, a lonely man talking about the weather and other things. I tried to be pleasant and accommodating, but my head hurt from his banality. I almost didn't notice it had happened, but I suddenly threw up all over him. He was not pleased, and I couldn't stop laughing.

View Quote [On killing] I've gone ... and done it again.

View Quote 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.

View Quote This is the only way that you can hope to survive. Because life... is not a movie. Everyone lies. Good guys lose. And love... does not conquer all.

View Quote If they can't start a meeting without you, well, that's a meeting worth going to, isn't it? And that's the only kind of meeting you should ever concern yourselves with.

View Quote What, your job is unfair to you? Grow up, way it goes. People use you? Life's unfair? Grow up, way it goes. Your girlfriend doesn't love you? Tough shit, way it goes. Your wife gets raped and shot, and they leave their unfinished beers... [He begins to weep] ... their... their stinking longnecks just lying there on the gr - So be it. Way it goes.

View Quote [Giving a lecture to his college students] Living by your wants will never make you happy; what it means to be fully human is to strive to live by ideas and ideals and not to measure your life by what you ever attain in terms of your desires but those small moments of integrity, compassion, rationality, even self-sacrifice.

View Quote [Giving a lecture to his college students] Fantasies have to be unrealistic. Because the minute- the second- that you get what you want, you don't- you can't- want it anymore.

View Quote [while drunk] Socrates was ugly, Plato was fat, and, um, and Aristotle was a prissy dresser!

View Quote WHOSE IDEA WAS THIS?!?

View Quote You piece of dirt. No, I'm wrong. You're lower than dirt. You're an ant!

View Quote HAVE YOU BEEN PLAYING ALL SUMMER?! YOU THINK THIS IS A GAME?!

View Quote [in the Fortress of Solitude] You might think so, most would. This is more of a monument to a long dead and extremely powerful civilization. This is where he learned who he was. This is where he came for guidance.

View Quote [After swindling an elderly woman out of her fortune on her death bed; removing his wig and giving it to the family] You can keep that. The rest is mine.

View Quote You're asking yourself, "How?" Didn't your dad ever teach you to LOOK! BEFORE! YOU LEAP?! Crystals, they're amazing aren't they? They inherit the traits of the minerals around them, kind of like a son inheriting the traits of his FATHER!! You took away five years of my life. I'm just returning the favor!

View Quote Trevor: Are you saying you'll flunk us if we don't change the world?
Eugene: Well, no. But you might just scrape by with a C.

View Quote Arlene: Jesus, you are really somethin'.
Eugene: Thanks. I appreciate the euphemism. I always wanted to be somethin'.

View Quote Eugene Simonet: Jesus Arlene, he doesn't have to. All he has to do is not love him.

View Quote Because I don't like you.

View Quote You've got a big mouth... now I'm gonna show you an even bigger one.

View Quote They just like talking to salesmen.

View Quote Remember this day, boys. Remember this day.

View Quote I'll do it, John, but not because of your little speech. But because I need the money. Hard to believe after all these years, but I... I need the money.

View Quote John Tuld: Since when you have you gotten so soft?
Sam Rogers: **** you, soft. You're panicking.
John Tuld: If you're first out the door, that's not called panicking.

View Quote Casey Schuler: I hate this bug.
Sam Daniels: Come on, Casey. You have to love its simplicity. It's one-billionth our size and it's beating us.
Casey Schuler: So, what do you wanna do — take it to dinner?
Sam Daniels: No.
Casey Schuler: What, then?
Sam Daniels: Kill it.

View Quote Casey Schuler: I think a state-sanctioned divorce signed by both parties is strong evidence that something is off.

View Quote [Sam looks over Casey's shoulder as he dictates the Motaba Valley outbreak report.]
Sam Daniels: "Alarmingly high fatality. All localized within a three-mile radius... incubation period short... appears contained." Alarming! Casey, you didn't put "alarming".
Casey Schuler: It's an adverb, Sam. It's a lazy tool of a weak mind.

View Quote He's been boosting cars since he was old enough to see over the dash. He stole my Mercedes. Had a lot of merch in it. I watched him do it, too. I didn't stop him, though, because I was just blinded by the balls on that kid.

View Quote Don't feed me any more lines from Monsters, Inc.! It pisses me off!

View Quote It's gonna take more than a cassette to get you two out of this, because the news is all bad. Well, there is some good news. The good news is you like driving, because you can't take your foot off the gas for the next twenty-five years.

View Quote Jack: Do you remember Buzz Meeks, Dudley?
Capt. Dudley Smith: A disgrace as a police officer. Straight-D fitness reports from every CEO he ever served under. What about him?
Jack: 12 years ago he was on a Vice rouse with Dick Stensland. They questioned Pierce Patchett about a blackmail scam. Patchett had Sid Hudgens photographing prominent businessmen with hookers. Anyway, charges were dropped, insufficient evidence. You were the supervising officer on that case and I was wondering if you remember anything about it.
Capt. Dudley Smith: What's this all about, boyo?
Jack: Part of it has to do with a murder, I've been working with Ed Exley on it.
Capt. Dudley Smith: You're in Narco, Jack, not Homicide. Since when do you work with Edmund Exley?
Jack: Well, it's a private investigation. I messed something up. I'm trying to make amends.
Capt. Dudley Smith: Don't start trying to do the right thing, boyo. You haven't had the practice. [He turns to the stove and prepares a cup of tea for Jack] Buzz Meeks and Dick Stensland. So, uh, what does Exley make of all of this?
Jack: I haven't told him yet. I just came straight from the record to you. [Dudley suddenly turns to Jack with a pistol and shoots him once in the chest; a shocked Jack struggles to breathe as he looks up at Dudley]
Capt. Dudley Smith: Have you a valediction, boyo?
Jack: [in a strained whisper, on the verge of death] Rollo... Tomasi.

View Quote Jack: Why in the world do you want to go digging any deeper into the Nite Owl Killings, Lieutenant?
Ed: Rollo Tomasi.
Jack: Is there more to that, or am I supposed to guess?
Ed: 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. I just made the name up to give him some personality. Rollo Tomasi's the reason I became a cop. I wanted to catch the guys who thought they could get away with it. It was supposed to be about justice. Then somewhere along the way I lost sight of that. Why'd you become a cop?
Jack:[long pause] I don't remember.

View Quote Johnny: You want an autograph? Write to MGM.
Ed: Since when do two-bit hoods and hookers give out autographs?
Johnny: What'd you say to me?
Ed: LAPD. Sit down.
Woman: Who in the hell do you think you are?
Jack: Ed...
Ed: Take a walk, honey, before I haul your ass downtown.
Johnny: You are making a large mistake.
Woman: Get away from our table.
Ed: Shut up! [leans in] A hooker cut to look like Lana Turner is still a hooker.
Johnny: Hey!
Ed: She just looks like Lana Turner.
Jack: [grinning] She is Lana Turner.
Ed: What?
Jack: She is Lana Turner.
[Lana throws a drink in Ed's face]

View Quote Sabian: (while trying to talk his wife out through the bedroom door) You know, I once talked a man out of blowing up the Sears Tower, but I cannot talk my wife out of a bedroom or my kid off a phone.
Sabian's wife: That's because nobody's standing behind you with a big gun!
Sabian: Yeah well, that's debatable.

View Quote Sabian: (to Danny) You hurt one of them, you burn up any currency you have to deal with me. They're all I care about. You leaving here walking is a distant second.