Kevin Spacey Net Worth

Kevin Spacey's Quotes

• [on winning the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in American Beauty (1999))] This has definitely been the highlight of my day.
• [on American Beauty (1999)] I read the screenplay and nearly fell out of bed. I thought I better meet him quick before someone else read it.
• [on assumptions by women that he is gay (NOTE: In 2017 he admitted that he was gay after years of unconfirmed speculation)] For them it's a challenge. They want to be the one to turn me around. I let them.
• My idea of credibility is primarily self-imposed and it all relates to the thing that I've been interested in as an actor and a director, which is what are you WILLING to live with as a human being? And there's things I'm just not willing to live with--and I won't. And if it means that I stop and find something else in life that interests me or challenges me, so be it.
• The less you know about me, the easier it is to convince you that I am that character on screen. It allows an audience to come into a movie theatre and believe I am that person.

Interesting Facts about Kevin Spacey

1. Auditioned for The Gong Show (1976) and was rejected (1978).
2. Attended Chatsworth (CA) High School with Val Kilmer.
3. His mother was his date for the Academy Awards the night he won.
4. Was co-valedictorian of his high school class at Chatsworth (CA) High School (1977).
5. Was paid 225 pounds per week for appearing in "The Iceman Cometh" at the Almeida Theatre in London (1998).
6. In October 1997, he was ranked #56 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.
7. Attended Chatsworth (CA) High School in Los Angeles with Mare Winningham. During their senior year, he played Von Trapp and she played Maria in a school production of "The Sound of Music". Upon hearing of their Oscar nominations in 1996, Winningham sent a telegram to Spacey saying: "Captain Von Trapp--congratulations on your nomination--Maria".
8. In May 1999, he was voted greatest actor of the decade by Empire magazine.
9. Burned his sister's treehouse down when they were children. This caused his parents to opt for military school, which he promptly left for Chatsworth High School.
10. Was the first choice to play the role of Lester Burnham in American Beauty (1999).
11. In February 2001, he appears twice in Total Film's (U.K) '10 Greatest Villains of All Time' poll. His "John Doe", from Seven (1995), reached #10, while his character in The Usual Suspects (1995) was voted #5.
12. Listed as one of "Entertainment Weekly's 25 Best Actors. [1998]
13. In September 2000, he made People magazine's (USA) 'Best-Dressed' list.
14. Studied drama at Juilliard School for two years.
15. Was expelled from Northridge (CA) Military Academy for throwing a tire at a classmate.
16. Was the first Academy Award winner to be on The Daily Show (1996).
17. During his appearance on BBC TV's Parkinson (1971) in March 2002, he did impressions of Jack Lemmon, Bill Clinton, Judi Dench, Katharine Hepburn, Al Pacino, Ian McKellen, Peter O'Toole and James Stewart.
18. He met Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez in September 2007, but never spoke to the press about their encounter. During the trip, he donated money to the Venezuelan film studio Villa del Cine.
19. Is a supporter of the U.S. Democratic Party.
20. Dedicated the Academy Award that he won for Best Actor in American Beauty (1999) to Jack Lemmon. Spacey has said in interviews that he based his performance of Lester Burnham on Lemmon's C.C. Baxter in The Apartment (1960). Appropriately, there is also a family connection between those films: Lemmon's love interest was Shirley MacLaine, whose sister-in-law, Annette Bening played Spacey's wife.