? My father loved his sales job, but he was selling products that people actually needed, so he had customers calling HIM. And my sister sells real estate, but damned if she's showing up at anyone's front door at night begging them to buy swampland in Florida. Her phone rings off the hook as well, with people who WANT to buy houses. The guys in this movie are trying to push crap on vulnerable chumps who don't want it. The question is, what happened earlier in their lives to land them in such depressing jobs at such a doomed company?
when the picture isnt shot "jack lemon plays the piano, some of us would talk, some read". Crazy how it sounds today with everyone on phones nad internet
A brilliant and talented and very smart guy from day one. I remember watching spacey in CBS' s Wise Guy television show as as villain Mel Profit and knew right away he'd be a star.
Boy he hit the nail on the head about the blurring of personal, private and professional lives warping people perceptions especially in this social medial age
I am a salesman too. I have also been a police officer and have been in armed combat. Being a salesman takes brass balls. It’s a career which can pay huge money for tough people. Way harder than my previous career.
Glen Garry Glen Ross one of my favorite movies. Spacey takes a lot of abuse in the film. But as he says here, he gets his paybacks on Jack Lemon's character.
Spacey's downfall was when the lines became blurred, between his on-camera persona as Frank Underwood in House of Cards and his behind-the-scenes reputation. I think what he became known for on that show rubbed people the wrong way, I just wish the whistleblowers that came forward could have waited one more season and allowed the show to conclude.
1:43 This profession is NOT a game. Spacey obviously has never had to put food on the table or pay bills by working in a job where he had to sell people something they neither wanted nor could easily afford. Sales people in such professions have high rates of turnover, ulcers, anxiety, alcoholism, divorce and failed relationships. Every day is a gamble for survival in such sales jobs. For most people who work in normal salaried jobs, their survival does not depend on how lucky they are every day or on how well they get results every day, especially when their fate rests in the hands of potential buyers who don't want to buy something which they have no interest in and can't afford.
That’s not true. I do it for a living. I love it. I worked my way up to regional sales manager. You’ve obviously never done it, or failed at it, cause it’s got nothing to do with luck at all, and everything to do with attitude. I’ve done it my whole life. And I’m my business, we don’t even get leads. You get a strip of businesses, and you cold call them in person. B2b. I in person cold call businesses for a living and I do rather well for myself. And to your point, about being at the mercy of others, that’s completely wrong. The number 1 thing we teach is TAKE CONTROL. If you are good at what you do, and have a great attitude and mentality, and you make the customer LOVE YOU, it really is not that hard tbh. You have to make them love you. That’s the whole game. Become their friend. And if your a friendly, social, caring, outgoing person, that’s not very hard to do. You do that, they have zero problem handing you the money, if they will use it. Again I’ve done it for 6 years, and I haven’t been lucky 6 years straight lol. I built my whole life on it, and I wouldn’t do anything else in the world. I owe everything I own to sales. And again that’s all commission.
@@danhaley9393 Dan, you misunderstood what I was saying, and I was responding to Kevin Spacey (a contract actor) and his comments about sales people. It is he who has never been in sales. I have spent years in the most difficult kind of sales there is, and I made a lot of money at it selling people to people. I was a headhunter. Headhunters' work is five times more difficult than any other type of sales, because you have to: 1. Convince a cold-called candidate who is content working at their job, to leave it and the security it provides, often involving selling their home and moving their family to another city, then 2. Take another job where they know nothing about the company culture or company financial health, while 3. Trying to sell all the company decision makers (line managers, their supervisors, the department head and the Human Resources weenies) on the idea of hiring your candidate, over twenty other qualified candidates, and 4. Competing with every other headhunter in the region to get the damn job order in the first place. Selling an object or a service to a single client or customer is child's play compared to headhunting. Unfortunately, the placement industry has become a dwindling profession, thanks to internet companies which now provide job postings and candidate-finding services, much like dating applications. With regard to the film, the concept of "leads" was paramount for the sales staff, and the movie convinced the viewers that leads came from some downtown office which magically cranked them out of a machine. In reality, it would be the sales people themselves, cold-calling potential customers to make their own leads. But, Mamet had to create the myth in order to develop the plot where the precious leads were stolen, otherwise, there wouldn't be much of a story. However, just as in the film where the sales people used a lot of B.S., in headhunting we had to mix a certain amount of B.S. with truth, because if you were caught lying to clients or companies, they would dump you. Headhunters would often use "creative" methods of developing leads, which were potential job candidates or potential job openings. (technical high-paying jobs and candidates) Stories of buying closely-guarded company phone directories and even more closely-guarded organization charts were often true about headhunters who would weasel into a company and either develop job openings or steal away job candidates for other client companies. Companies were either clients or sources. Candidates were both clients and sources. The most successful headhunters could make anywhere between half a million to a million dollars in a year, depending on how much time he/she put into researching, hunting for openings and candidates, cold-calling and selling via phone calls and in-person meetings. Just as in real estate, it is a 24-hr profession.
The actor, after waiting 20 years, ruined Kevin. THEN withdrew the accusation. The talent that Kevin has was such a source of joy for me, I carried my book, with places underlined, and did my Savannah “Obsession With MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL” trip. I still love Kevin, his performances and interviews. I like to think he’ll come back someday. All those Hollywood hypocrites in glass houses continue to throw rocks at anyone that made a mistake.
In our present society it's enough to ACCUSE someone of sexual misconduct for that person to lose their position and be disgraced. The principle of innocent until proven guilty no longer applies; the allegation itself is sufficient "evidence".
@@c3dmf4s OP is either stupid himself or thinks everyone else is Hollywood crowd have been joking and giving each other winks about pedophilia going back multiple decades. It’s not that “accusations” were made. It’s that their ENTIRE INDUSTRY runs on pedophilia, secret societies and orgies. You can choose to be stupid with your head up your butt. Don’t expect the rest of us to limit our knowledge sources to reddit and UA-cam as well
As an actor he is a huge talent, he has every right to be a little cocky { that wasn't Freudian BTW lol } he is incredible in Glengarry of course but I think he is at the very top of his game in American Beauty, fantastic acting, what a talent, he really doesn't have to worry about how he is perceived today his work is there for life and for history
It’s not actually that tough. It’s honestly fun, as he says we thrive on it. I in person cold call businesses for a living and have for 6 years. I love it. It is very competitive, though, that’s for sure, and it does give you a massive adrenaline high. It is a lot like sports in terms of the competitiveness and it being performance based. But I love it. Can’t imagine doing anything else.
I've done cold knocking and selling in home. It's a horrible business that I didn't stay in very long at all. I hope your business is a good one, and not a high pressure, asshole salesmen type. If you're cold calling, it prob is.
My personal opinion: Sales is one of the worst jobs ever. You have to constantly beg your customers and then customer says that they are not interested. It just crushes your soul. I have been approached by salesmen. They look so desperate, broken and will sometimes be passive aggressive infact even mock you so that you buy from them. You have to be ruthless in this industry. Very few succeed. I never did sales it people who did it told me that.
Damn Spacey is good. Almost had me believing he didn’t know why he went home depressed. He knows too many actors that didn’t make it and had to work sales environments not much different than what’s depicted in this film. (Excluding the robbery)
What are you on about lol. He's talking about the abuse his character had to take on the set and how it affected his mood unconsciously even though it was just acting.
Jan 11th 2023 FINALLY GOT HIS DREAM TO ACT WITH HIS IDOL LATE GREAT JACK LEMMON WHO TOLD KEVIN AT HIS WORK SHOP “”AT 13YEARS OLD “”YOUR A BORN ACTOR GO TO NY TO TRAIN “”KEVIN DID AND THIS HAD TO BE EPIC GOR KEVIN TO ACT WITH JACK EVENTUALLY MUST HAVE BEEN ELATED AND HES WORTH IT ❤❤
Totally agree. Spacey is an actor on a different level. I don't give a shit who he hit on. The metoo movement has been a scourge on our society. If rape occurs, it should be prosecuted. Absolutely wouldn't blame a victim for anything. But when the mob takes over, it ruins everything. The rage mob has no perspective and acts irrationally. That guy that looked at me funny last week must be a rapist because...#metoo.
I love Kevin Spacey, he is one of the best actors around. He was great in GGR holding his own against these legendary actors. Who cares what he does in his personal life?
What he does in real life could effect your family your kids and effect you for life. He plays exactly what he is in real life “ a predator” and slime ball
Really enjoy his acting. "The big kahuna", "Midnight in the garden of good and evil" as well as Glen Gary Glen Ross" are all great films. Come back Kevin, you're missed.
We're all salesmen in life to some extent. To get a job you have pitch yourself at a job interview and sell yourself, to get a girlfriend/boyfriend you have to pitch yourself on a date. Even just making friends your selling yourself to people.
The filming, editing and mood of this film gets little mention vs. the acting and screenplay. If you notice, it was always thunder and raining. An ominous mis en scene.
I used to sell Avon back in my late 20's and it was pretty good. I always got my quotas because of my bubbly personality. I always dressed accordingly too. I only did it part time though.
Kevin Spacey is by no means "the greatest person ever" but if you look into him not being found guilty of all the charges and the actual details of a lot of them (he does the same kind of thing Andy Dick does and has no personal boundaries) but, and I could be wrong, but he's never raped or did anything "super bad", at least IMO. Not really trying to defend the guy but he was/is a great actor and I don't really think his alleged crimes completely erase that.
I find it ironic that Spacey and the interviewer were discussing being the "hero" of the film or being someone who's being beat up on like these things are mutually exclusive. Now that I've seen GGR I actually think Williamson is the most sympathetic character of all. He's just trying to do his job, but the salesmen keep beating up on him because he's an easier target than Mitch and Murray and the other faceless bureaucrats who actually run the company. He's also the one who actually solves the mystery of the missing leads (not that Levene does himself any favors, mind you).
It's a tough job I lasted a week in sales I stuck it out just to get the basic pay check wasn't successful in selling Broadband! Had a colleague who was hard as nails yet after 4 days was weeping like a baby couldn't handle the pressure. It's not for everyone one, great movie btw watched it a few days ago.
I hope actors’s on today sets still engage in piddling hobbies, Idle chitchat and card games when the cameras aren’t rolling. Protecting performing arts processes and values that are vulnerable when one picks up a smartphone and checks out.
He makes a good point (ironically enough) about actors staying private. Great example here of failing at that is Alec Baldwin, who's really just playing Alec Baldwin, yet again.
He's definitely right about actors and the audience learning more about them and that being all they can see. Alec Baldwin is always Alec Baldwin. No matter his role. Mark Ruffalo is always Mark Ruffalo. Brie Larson is always Brie Larson. Actors seem to think it's their duty now to use their fame to become political. Maybe it is. But there is a price to pay; you can't disappear into your craft. You're that actor pretending to be someone you're not.
Those 3 you mentioned are kinda lead types, which have always been the same person on screen since way before what you might consider the time at which actors "got political", which they've also been doing since the beginning. Spacey though leaned more toward being a character actor anyway. Of course he didn't have a whole lot of range himself. 99% of his performances were either the aloof everyman or the equally aloof cutthroat psycho. I do love him though don't get me wrong. One of my top 5 favorite actors in fact. I just think you're showing a bunch of bias with that comment is what I'm trying to say. Political outspokenness does not at all necessarily come at the cost of shallowing an actors craft or vice versa. Two separate things seems to me.
Perhaps reflect on how trivial your pathetic desire to be entertained is, vs the victims of this sub-worthless piece of dogshit. You can't, and wouldn't if you could. But FWIW, to us non-psychopaths, it's gob-smackingly unbelievable that you'd ever even consider airing such a pathetic whinge as _"MEH IT'S NOT FAIR, WHEN WILL ANYONE LISTEN TO MY DESIRE TO BE ENTERTAINED BY CAPTAIN RAPEY, instead of all this endless hair-tearing _"OOH THINK OF THE CHILDREN"_ overblown melodrama about a handful of kids that got their you know what's sucked by a keen amateur, perhaps semi-pro(at most) child molester. Listen short stuff, get this through your head: everyone doesn't care about you the way you think they do. Of course everyone's gonna say to your face, _"ooh you poor thing, show me where the bad man touched you."_ Well sorry sunshine, that's just the way things are. Sometimes in life, you just gotta pick yourself up, dust yourself off, find the path, get back on it, and get to where you wanna get to. Sometimes you can get carried away with all the attention and melodrama of things, and blow the whole situation out of all proportion, or your part in it at least. You're not the only one to suffer from the fallout of what this guy did or mighta did or done. In fact, there are way, WAAAAYYYY more victims of a major television show of this magnitude being forced to pause or stop, by the historical accusations against this genius actor here. Ever consider that, when you were having a cry and feeling sorry for yourself? I lost my frikkin' favourite TV show, and I didn't even do nothin' to no one. So you got sucked off or bumed once or twice, BIG DEAL. Suck it up. The world doesn't start and stop at your convenience you f**kin' whore, you strumpet... I've got a big empty Kevin-shaped space in my life, and no idea what I'll fill it with, you've got what, anal tears? Another huge blast of attention to air your melodrama, since it's all about you now, isn't it, not the legion of fans who like myself have become so enamored by this rapist's ability to pretend to be something utterly alien to his real nature (i.e. pretend to have the faintest hint of empathy for anyone other than themselves), we're passively compelled to sit on our fat arses and waste another hour we'll never get back with what, stupid UA-cam comments like this? When we could be watching whatever happened to Kevin _"Safety"_ Spacey's character, and how he reacts however he does to whomever the fuck is trying' to do whateve it is they're trying to do to him agin.... Christ you're unbelievable. Sucked off by one of the most compelling actors of the modern era? WE SHOULD BE SO LUCKY, you spoiled little brat!!!
Most of the salesmen in the office are far closer to bottom of the barrel cold calling assholes than they are to big swinging dicks like Alec Baldwin plays. And look at what despicable dogshit excuses for human beings Pacino and Baldwin's character are... Pacino's character detects a weak, sorry little man drinking on his own in a bar at night. Susses him out, thinks out the approach, and strikes. Pretends to befriend the poor sap, give a shit about him. Total lie from the get go. No one wants to talk to schmucks like that, it's a fact of life. But he spends hours pretending to have a compelling desire to have a deep and meaningful yarn with the guy. Notice how close he sits to him, the suggestive signals he sends with his body language? Why? Cos one of the obvious conclusions you'd form about why a sad sack like Linck is as he is, is because he's a closeted gay guy with little to no confidence in his ability to pull, stuck in a job and marriage that are both prisons, manipulated and bullied by everyone in his life...lost. Flaccid. Useless. Along comes Tony motherfrikkin' Montana, who for some inexplicable reason seems compelled to coach locker room pep talk him back into slightly less utterly pathetic shape than he starts off in, by throwing everything but the kitchen sink in the arsenal of the professional bullshit artist at him: DO IT! DO THE THING! Be you. Whatever's eating you up, it's bullshit. It's not your fault. So don't you dare let it get to you. Rape kids? BIG DEAL. You gotta be you, bruh. Wife? Job. Money. Buy this, buy that. Men. Boundaries. Don't get hen pecked. Bullshit about what you wanna do that you wanna keep to yourself. Total vapid less-than-nothing burger, less than zero calorie substitute for soul food. Closer to the Psychopath's Manifesto. All totally false, totally predatory. Despicable to anyone with a conscience, deciding to earn a buck by screwing over vulnerability wherever you find it.
I'm commission only, not real estate, but insurance. That's it. no salary, no benefits, no 401k, they don't even pay for my phone service. I get absolutely no pay but commission. At least twice a year I listen to Alec Baldwin's speech to motivate myself to not suck. 🤣 I can tell you that in this type of business, it's full of unethical assholes like the Pacino character that would skin their customers alive to close a sale. The reputation is earned. It's cut throat and very few make the customer's long term well-being their top priority.
@@riftsalty7562 I've only seen one picture of them together. Doesn't mean that he knew her personally; plus from what I understand, Prince Andrew (who WAS a close friend of Maxwell and Epstein) arranged it as a gag photo anyways, since it was part of a private tour of the Palace for Bill Clinton in 2002. Maxwell was only there because she was a friend of the Prince. Plus Epstein wasn't on the tour, according to the Telegraph. According to multiple sources, KS only met Epstein ONCE in 2002; when he, along with Bill Clinton and Chris Rock, used his private plane for a charity trip to Africa. This trip was well documented, and there's no proof of them ever speaking or meeting after that. This photo was part of the same trip, taken before they left for Africa. As for why KS's name was in Epstein's black book; it was well known that Epstein, being a billionaire, collected contacts/names like others collect stamps. Many people who were in the black book were shocked because they'd only met Epstein briefly, or in some cases never met him at all. There's absolutely no evidence that KS knew anything about Epstein's illicit activities or that they were anything more than distant acquaintances. You could make that argument for Clinton, maybe, but not KS. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/07/03/exclusivehow-ghislaine-maxwell-kevin-spacey-relaxed-buckingham/ www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-did-i-end-up-in-epstein-s-little-black-book-
Gossip always finds an audience and when someone said Spacey had been a bit handsy and it was the MeToo moment, he had to go down. Sadly, they don't seem to be aware that they ruined House of Cards by doing so. I wonder if Michael Rappaport even regrets the timing, probably not.
I will just come right out and say it: I still like him. I don’t give a shit what other people think about that. I don’t condone his actions, and he should be held accountable, but I just don’t buy that he’s a monster. Some of these allegations against him are just sounding like people trying to get their fifteen minutes of fame, and several were rejected by police, plus Heather Unruh's case was exposed as a money grab, so what does that tell you? I for one am happy that he's slowly coming back, and I'm glad that the metoo hysteria surrounding him is ending. Also, just to clarify something since so many people keep calling him a pedophile: KEVIN IS NOT A PEDOPHILE. END OF STORY. A pedophile is attracted only to prepubescent children, which Kevin is not. The allegations concerning him have thus far only involved young ADULT men, so he doesn’t fit the description of a pedophile. Nor is he a rapist; the most he's been accused of thus far is groping people, and while I'm not defending his behavior (it was inappropriate and wrong), it's nowhere near the same thing as rape. Also, the incident with Anthony Rapp was inappropriate, yes, shouldn’t have happened but as far as I’m concerned it was likely a drunken accident. He did not rape or molest him, he simply lay on top of him, Anthony said no and got away, and that was it. Hardly assault. Even Rapp himself said it wasn't rape, and a lawyer told him he had no case (which would not be true if anything malicious had happened), so what does that tell you? I will say publicly that he is a good man, he is a decent man, and I am sorry this happened to him. And now you want me to discard him like garbage? I’m sorry people, I will not. For now, I still support him, and I don’t give a shit what people think of me because of that. You can think anything you like about me, because frankly, I’m beyond caring. Forgive me for believing you should have evidence and proof before you accuse someone of a crime, and also not wait thirty years to bring it up instead of doing something right then. We have a statute of limitations on crimes for a reason. Innocent until proven guilty.
I wonder if u would be so forgiving if it had happened to your son. Even if they were “young men” as u say. A crime is a crime no matter how u sugar coat it.
@@fi7452 Well, first of all, I can't have children, so your point is moot. But if we're going down that road, let me explain how I feel: My family instilled in me from a young age that if I was ever harmed criminally in some way (being mugged, assaulted etc.), that I was to go to the police right away, because it would be more likely that they could catch the criminal and help me. And I have taken this advice to heart and used it. Prevention is everything. If I had a son, I would instill the same thing in him. I would have brought him up to be able to defend himself. I would also do everything possible to make sure he knew he could come to me if he was hurt.
Kevin Spacey sounds and looks like an older version of Robert Downey Jr. Of course, RDJ made a comeback from something not as heinous. Spacey can't come back from what happened even if he's innocent in court.
I'm not sure that's true; from what I gather, people have slowly started to forgive KS and welcome him back into the spotlight (I've heard he's been hired for a film project in Italy). If there's one thing I know about Hollywood as an outsider, it's that people forget.
@@Cenot4ph Stop talking crap, shit heel, it emanates off the prick palpably in the first few seconds. Open your fucking eyes, or shut your fucking mouth.
The rise and fall of Kevin Spacey: A timeline of sexual assault allegations For more than 30 years, the award-winning actor could seemingly do no wrong. By Chris Francescani
I'd say (as a guess) that those who complained after a lot of years are jealous of how 'hot' he was and it kept them from being recognized. Their careers are nowhere near his accomplishments. He's hot, alright! Gorgeous! He would have to be gay. Damn. 😡
8 years in Sales. It takes a piece of the soul every day.
? My father loved his sales job, but he was selling products that people actually needed, so he had customers calling HIM. And my sister sells real estate, but damned if she's showing up at anyone's front door at night begging them to buy swampland in Florida. Her phone rings off the hook as well, with people who WANT to buy houses. The guys in this movie are trying to push crap on vulnerable chumps who don't want it. The question is, what happened earlier in their lives to land them in such depressing jobs at such a doomed company?
A real salesman sells things that are tough to sell. Your father sounds like an order taker.
Glengarry Glen Ross is a spectacular film!! It is a spectacular film with great acting and a stellar script!! It’s awesome! I love it a lot!!
I'm a salesman and Spacey describes just what it is like to be a salesman. And being a salesman this is one of my favorite movies.
I used to be a salesman, it's a tough racket
@@realazduffman that’s line has kept me from quitting sales multiple times. I will not let Baldwin say I told you so haha
Same here. Been in the biz for 6 years
Are you a salesman?
I worked with salesmen. They all love this movie. It's a "must see" for all of them.
"will you please, go to lunch?"
He doesn't say please. Not once
@@chiefscheider I shoulda known better.
Damn right, it's Mamet
He played the part so well I can’t help but thinking of him as his character in GGR.
Yeah agreed. Damn he was so young here lol
Whenever I've seen him in anything, I've thought of Mel Profitt from Wiseguy. Keven Spacey MADE that show.
when the picture isnt shot "jack lemon plays the piano, some of us would talk, some read". Crazy how it sounds today with everyone on phones nad internet
What a great talent.
A wonderful artist ❤️
enterthetekken crime of passion only applies to murder
This aged horribly
@@aliceposoldova8023 he's a POS
@@pnut3844able no it didn't.
I love this guy ..amazing actor
Totally. One of the best. I'd love to see him return to the screen again. I know it would be controversial but I'd watch. He is a rare talent.
A brilliant and talented and very smart guy from day one. I remember watching spacey in CBS' s Wise Guy television show as as villain Mel Profit and knew right away he'd be a star.
He's a chomo
Boy he hit the nail on the head about the blurring of personal, private and professional lives warping people perceptions especially in this social medial age
I am a salesman too. I have also been a police officer and have been in armed combat. Being a salesman takes brass balls. It’s a career which can pay huge money for tough people. Way harder than my previous career.
Regardless of everything else, this few moments is great.
*Irregardless
@@shazzthedon Irregardless is a bastard cousin of regardless - the standard adverb.
Glen Garry Glen Ross one of my favorite movies. Spacey takes a lot of abuse in the film. But as he says here, he gets his paybacks on Jack Lemon's character.
One of your favorite movies but you don't even know the title.
@@regibson23 Funny how addind a space brings people out of the woodwork.
Plus, I need a new set of thumbs.
Lemmon
He kind of passive aggressively abuses his staff, then Pacino abuses him, then he gets to take it out on Lemmon, yeah.
'Don't you wish you were me?'
Not now Kev.
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Jan 28th 2023 BEAUTIFUL MAN BEAUTIFUL LAUGH I ADORE KEVIN HES HAS NO EQUALS AT ALL HES THE BEST ARTISTIC ACTOR EVER ❤🏴🇬🇧🇺🇸🌷
David Mamet is a great writer. House of Games is one of my favorites...
Take a cast of tremendous talent and add a great script and you get Glen Gary Glen Ross...
Spacey's downfall was when the lines became blurred, between his on-camera persona as Frank Underwood in House of Cards and his behind-the-scenes reputation. I think what he became known for on that show rubbed people the wrong way, I just wish the whistleblowers that came forward could have waited one more season and allowed the show to conclude.
You could very well have victims of Spacey during that extra season
"A line I will never cross"
Hits different now that we know what we know about him
You’re being brainwashed by the media. 😢
1:43 This profession is NOT a game. Spacey obviously has never had to put food on the table or pay bills by working in a job where he had to sell people something they neither wanted nor could easily afford. Sales people in such professions have high rates of turnover, ulcers, anxiety, alcoholism, divorce and failed relationships. Every
day is a gamble for survival in such sales jobs. For most people who work in normal salaried jobs, their survival does not depend on how lucky they are every day or on how well they get results every day, especially when their fate rests in the hands of potential buyers who don't want to buy something which they have no interest in and can't afford.
That’s not true. I do it for a living. I love it. I worked my way up to regional sales manager. You’ve obviously never done it, or failed at it, cause it’s got nothing to do with luck at all, and everything to do with attitude. I’ve done it my whole life. And I’m my business, we don’t even get leads. You get a strip of businesses, and you cold call them in person. B2b. I in person cold call businesses for a living and I do rather well for myself. And to your point, about being at the mercy of others, that’s completely wrong. The number 1 thing we teach is TAKE CONTROL. If you are good at what you do, and have a great attitude and mentality, and you make the customer LOVE YOU, it really is not that hard tbh. You have to make them love you. That’s the whole game. Become their friend. And if your a friendly, social, caring, outgoing person, that’s not very hard to do. You do that, they have zero problem handing you the money, if they will use it. Again I’ve done it for 6 years, and I haven’t been lucky 6 years straight lol. I built my whole life on it, and I wouldn’t do anything else in the world. I owe everything I own to sales. And again that’s all commission.
@@danhaley9393 Dan, you misunderstood what I was saying, and I was responding to Kevin Spacey (a contract actor) and his comments about sales people. It is he who has never been in sales. I have spent years in the most difficult kind of sales there is, and I made a lot of money at it selling people to people. I was
a headhunter. Headhunters' work is five times more difficult than any other type of sales, because you have to:
1. Convince a cold-called candidate who is content working at their job, to leave it and the security it provides, often involving selling their home and moving their family to another city, then
2. Take another job where they know nothing about the company culture or company financial health, while
3. Trying to sell all the company decision makers (line managers, their supervisors, the department head and the Human Resources weenies) on the idea of hiring your candidate, over twenty other qualified candidates, and
4. Competing with every other headhunter in the region to get the damn job order in the first place.
Selling an object or a service to a single client or customer is child's play compared to headhunting. Unfortunately, the placement industry has become a dwindling profession, thanks to internet companies which now provide job postings and candidate-finding services, much like dating applications.
With regard to the film, the concept of "leads" was paramount for the sales staff, and the movie convinced the viewers that leads came from some downtown office which magically cranked them out of a machine. In reality, it would be the sales people themselves, cold-calling potential customers to make their own leads. But, Mamet had to create the myth in order to develop the plot where the precious leads were stolen, otherwise, there wouldn't be much of a story.
However, just as in the film where the sales people used a lot of B.S., in headhunting we had to mix a certain amount of B.S. with truth, because if you were caught lying to clients or companies, they would dump you. Headhunters would often use "creative" methods of developing leads, which were potential job candidates or potential job openings. (technical high-paying jobs and candidates)
Stories of buying closely-guarded company phone directories and even more closely-guarded organization charts were often true about headhunters who would weasel into a company and either develop job openings or steal away job candidates for other client companies.
Companies were either clients or sources. Candidates were both clients and sources. The most successful headhunters could make anywhere between half a million to a million dollars in a year, depending on how much time he/she put into researching, hunting for openings and candidates, cold-calling and selling via phone calls and in-person meetings. Just as in real estate, it is a 24-hr profession.
The actor, after waiting 20 years, ruined Kevin. THEN withdrew the accusation.
The talent that Kevin has was such a source of joy for me,
I carried my book, with places underlined, and did my Savannah “Obsession With MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL” trip.
I still love Kevin, his performances and interviews. I like to think he’ll come back someday.
All those Hollywood hypocrites in glass houses continue to throw rocks at anyone that made a mistake.
@Neo Anderson Except he never did that in the first place.
This guy went around grabbing crew member's dicks.
In our present society it's enough to ACCUSE someone of sexual misconduct for that person to lose their position and be disgraced. The principle of innocent until proven guilty no longer applies; the allegation itself is sufficient "evidence".
Not the only person accusing him...
@@c3dmf4s OP is either stupid himself or thinks everyone else is
Hollywood crowd have been joking and giving each other winks about pedophilia going back multiple decades. It’s not that “accusations” were made. It’s that their ENTIRE INDUSTRY runs on pedophilia, secret societies and orgies.
You can choose to be stupid with your head up your butt. Don’t expect the rest of us to limit our knowledge sources to reddit and UA-cam as well
Recently started working as an insurance broker. I love this kind of job
As an actor he is a huge talent, he has every right to be a little cocky { that wasn't Freudian BTW lol } he is incredible in Glengarry of course but I think he is at the very top of his game in American Beauty, fantastic acting, what a talent, he really doesn't have to worry about how he is perceived today his work is there for life and for history
Agreed, also "The Usual Suspects" "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"
"Have you seen him yet? Ah, well he's terrific... he doesn't bite." this has a completely different meaning now.
Amazing insights from Spacey
Terrific film. Terrific actors.
Fantastic movie ❤
Great movie!
It’s not actually that tough. It’s honestly fun, as he says we thrive on it. I in person cold call businesses for a living and have for 6 years. I love it. It is very competitive, though, that’s for sure, and it does give you a massive adrenaline high. It is a lot like sports in terms of the competitiveness and it being performance based. But I love it. Can’t imagine doing anything else.
What do you sell?
I've done cold knocking and selling in home. It's a horrible business that I didn't stay in very long at all. I hope your business is a good one, and not a high pressure, asshole salesmen type. If you're cold calling, it prob is.
My personal opinion:
Sales is one of the worst jobs ever. You have to constantly beg your customers and then customer says that they are not interested. It just crushes your soul. I have been approached by salesmen. They look so desperate, broken and will sometimes be passive aggressive infact even mock you so that you buy from them. You have to be ruthless in this industry. Very few succeed. I never did sales it people who did it told me that.
Put that coffee down.
love him no matter what ❤️
Same.
I swear I was so relieved when Alec Baldwin pulled out a pair of brass balls from his brief case and not a six shooter
It's too bad Kevin Spacey got canceled. The cast for the movie Glengarry Glen Ross is so good.
Damn Spacey is good. Almost had me believing he didn’t know why he went home depressed. He knows too many actors that didn’t make it and had to work sales environments not much different than what’s depicted in this film. (Excluding the robbery)
What are you on about lol. He's talking about the abuse his character had to take on the set and how it affected his mood unconsciously even though it was just acting.
why does the interviewer sound like billy bob thorton?
because it's Billy Bob Thornton
He doesn't really sound like BBT to me. Thornton's accent is a bit thicker and his pitch a bit deeper as well.
Really enjoyed Spacey's performance in the film " The Big Kahuna." Danny De Vito also excelled.
"It's a confessional... and a line that I will not ever cross." He's definitely crossed some other lines though.
Yup
Geez someone can emulate Brando's charm.... lol 😆
Jan 11th 2023 FINALLY GOT HIS DREAM TO ACT WITH HIS IDOL LATE GREAT JACK LEMMON WHO TOLD KEVIN AT HIS WORK SHOP “”AT 13YEARS OLD “”YOUR A BORN ACTOR GO TO NY TO TRAIN “”KEVIN DID AND THIS HAD TO BE EPIC GOR KEVIN TO ACT WITH JACK EVENTUALLY MUST HAVE BEEN ELATED AND HES WORTH IT ❤❤
Conclusions can be so deceiving. The question is, was he slow? No he's not
Terrific talent. If they had left him in that ransom movie I would have seen it. I don't give a shit if he was hitting on actors.
He wasn't just 'hitting on actors'; some were kids. And often he did what he did in a predatory manner to those who were of age.
NO CF I’ll do something about it. Anytime
@@ellenl.r.p.obrien4661 Except he never hit on anyone underage; the accusers were all young ADULT men at the time.
Totally agree. Spacey is an actor on a different level. I don't give a shit who he hit on. The metoo movement has been a scourge on our society. If rape occurs, it should be prosecuted. Absolutely wouldn't blame a victim for anything. But when the mob takes over, it ruins everything. The rage mob has no perspective and acts irrationally. That guy that looked at me funny last week must be a rapist because...#metoo.
@@nekad2000 In Hollywood, the closets are full of guys like Spacey. Young actors' jobs depend on these people. They're everywhere.
I love Kevin Spacey, he is one of the best actors around. He was great in GGR holding his own against these legendary actors. Who cares what he does in his personal life?
Sexual. Assault.
It was withdrawn..but nobody hears that part
His personal life involved sexually assaulting a minor.
What he does in real life could effect your family your kids and effect you for life. He plays exactly what he is in real life “ a predator” and slime ball
Someday when you are getting abused by a cop or a nurse, or a psychiatrist, and no one cares to help, you will ask "why doesn't anyone care?"
Really enjoy his acting. "The big kahuna", "Midnight in the garden of good and evil" as well as Glen Gary Glen Ross" are all great films. Come back Kevin, you're missed.
Spacey talking about actor's private lives being closed subjects.
That aged like a cut avocado.
We're all salesmen in life to some extent. To get a job you have pitch yourself at a job interview and sell yourself, to get a girlfriend/boyfriend you have to pitch yourself on a date. Even just making friends your selling yourself to people.
The filming, editing and mood of this film gets little mention vs. the acting and screenplay. If you notice, it was always thunder and raining. An ominous mis en scene.
I used to sell Avon back in my late 20's and it was pretty good. I always got my quotas because of my bubbly personality. I always dressed accordingly too. I only did it part time though.
A salesman destroyed my life. I had to completely rebuild my life.
Wow! So young & good looking.
Still handsome.
Kevin Spacey is by no means "the greatest person ever" but if you look into him not being found guilty of all the charges and the actual details of a lot of them (he does the same kind of thing Andy Dick does and has no personal boundaries) but, and I could be wrong, but he's never raped or did anything "super bad", at least IMO.
Not really trying to defend the guy but he was/is a great actor and I don't really think his alleged crimes completely erase that.
He really is a creepy guy. Makes sense.
Says a no-name account on the internet.
I find it ironic that Spacey and the interviewer were discussing being the "hero" of the film or being someone who's being beat up on like these things are mutually exclusive. Now that I've seen GGR I actually think Williamson is the most sympathetic character of all. He's just trying to do his job, but the salesmen keep beating up on him because he's an easier target than Mitch and Murray and the other faceless bureaucrats who actually run the company. He's also the one who actually solves the mystery of the missing leads (not that Levene does himself any favors, mind you).
It's a tough job I lasted a week in sales I stuck it out just to get the basic pay check wasn't successful in selling Broadband! Had a colleague who was hard as nails yet after 4 days was weeping like a baby couldn't handle the pressure. It's not for everyone one, great movie btw watched it a few days ago.
I hope actors’s on today sets still engage in piddling hobbies, Idle chitchat and card games when the cameras aren’t rolling. Protecting performing arts processes and values that are vulnerable when one picks up a smartphone and checks out.
He makes a good point (ironically enough) about actors staying private. Great example here of failing at that is Alec Baldwin, who's really just playing Alec Baldwin, yet again.
He's definitely right about actors and the audience learning more about them and that being all they can see.
Alec Baldwin is always Alec Baldwin. No matter his role. Mark Ruffalo is always Mark Ruffalo. Brie Larson is always Brie Larson.
Actors seem to think it's their duty now to use their fame to become political. Maybe it is. But there is a price to pay; you can't disappear into your craft. You're that actor pretending to be someone you're not.
Those 3 you mentioned are kinda lead types, which have always been the same person on screen since way before what you might consider the time at which actors "got political", which they've also been doing since the beginning. Spacey though leaned more toward being a character actor anyway. Of course he didn't have a whole lot of range himself. 99% of his performances were either the aloof everyman or the equally aloof cutthroat psycho.
I do love him though don't get me wrong. One of my top 5 favorite actors in fact. I just think you're showing a bunch of bias with that comment is what I'm trying to say. Political outspokenness does not at all necessarily come at the cost of shallowing an actors craft or vice versa. Two separate things seems to me.
Boy was that line crossed...
Man when are they going to let him back!
Perhaps reflect on how trivial your pathetic desire to be entertained is, vs the victims of this sub-worthless piece of dogshit. You can't, and wouldn't if you could. But FWIW, to us non-psychopaths, it's gob-smackingly unbelievable that you'd ever even consider airing such a pathetic whinge as _"MEH IT'S NOT FAIR, WHEN WILL ANYONE LISTEN TO MY DESIRE TO BE ENTERTAINED BY CAPTAIN RAPEY, instead of all this endless hair-tearing _"OOH THINK OF THE CHILDREN"_ overblown melodrama about a handful of kids that got their you know what's sucked by a keen amateur, perhaps semi-pro(at most) child molester.
Listen short stuff, get this through your head: everyone doesn't care about you the way you think they do. Of course everyone's gonna say to your face, _"ooh you poor thing, show me where the bad man touched you."_ Well sorry sunshine, that's just the way things are. Sometimes in life, you just gotta pick yourself up, dust yourself off, find the path, get back on it, and get to where you wanna get to. Sometimes you can get carried away with all the attention and melodrama of things, and blow the whole situation out of all proportion, or your part in it at least.
You're not the only one to suffer from the fallout of what this guy did or mighta did or done. In fact, there are way, WAAAAYYYY more victims of a major television show of this magnitude being forced to pause or stop, by the historical accusations against this genius actor here. Ever consider that, when you were having a cry and feeling sorry for yourself?
I lost my frikkin' favourite TV show, and I didn't even do nothin' to no one. So you got sucked off or bumed once or twice, BIG DEAL. Suck it up. The world doesn't start and stop at your convenience you f**kin' whore, you strumpet...
I've got a big empty Kevin-shaped space in my life, and no idea what I'll fill it with, you've got what, anal tears? Another huge blast of attention to air your melodrama, since it's all about you now, isn't it, not the legion of fans who like myself have become so enamored by this rapist's ability to pretend to be something utterly alien to his real nature (i.e. pretend to have the faintest hint of empathy for anyone other than themselves), we're passively compelled to sit on our fat arses and waste another hour we'll never get back with what, stupid UA-cam comments like this? When we could be watching whatever happened to Kevin _"Safety"_ Spacey's character, and how he reacts however he does to whomever the fuck is trying' to do whateve it is they're trying to do to him agin....
Christ you're unbelievable. Sucked off by one of the most compelling actors of the modern era? WE SHOULD BE SO LUCKY, you spoiled little brat!!!
@@soundgardener4940 ha haa listen to yourself you self righteous idiot. Dont tell me what to do child. Ill like who the fuck I want to
Where have you been shelly
Who ever told you that you could work with men???
Ffs people it's not Glen Gary Glen Ross
It's Glengarry Glen Ross.
I really enjoyed the prequel, Glengarry Glenn Miller
Kevin’s great ....
Always be closing !!!
genius
anybody else watched that drop of sweat racing down his cheek?
Post with no info about the year it was shot is atrocious
1992
salesmen win big but not as big as these actors. jfc
Most of the salesmen in the office are far closer to bottom of the barrel cold calling assholes than they are to big swinging dicks like Alec Baldwin plays. And look at what despicable dogshit excuses for human beings Pacino and Baldwin's character are...
Pacino's character detects a weak, sorry little man drinking on his own in a bar at night. Susses him out, thinks out the approach, and strikes. Pretends to befriend the poor sap, give a shit about him. Total lie from the get go. No one wants to talk to schmucks like that, it's a fact of life. But he spends hours pretending to have a compelling desire to have a deep and meaningful yarn with the guy. Notice how close he sits to him, the suggestive signals he sends with his body language? Why? Cos one of the obvious conclusions you'd form about why a sad sack like Linck is as he is, is because he's a closeted gay guy with little to no confidence in his ability to pull, stuck in a job and marriage that are both prisons, manipulated and bullied by everyone in his life...lost. Flaccid. Useless.
Along comes Tony motherfrikkin' Montana, who for some inexplicable reason seems compelled to coach locker room pep talk him back into slightly less utterly pathetic shape than he starts off in, by throwing everything but the kitchen sink in the arsenal of the professional bullshit artist at him: DO IT! DO THE THING! Be you. Whatever's eating you up, it's bullshit. It's not your fault. So don't you dare let it get to you. Rape kids? BIG DEAL. You gotta be you, bruh. Wife? Job. Money. Buy this, buy that. Men. Boundaries. Don't get hen pecked. Bullshit about what you wanna do that you wanna keep to yourself.
Total vapid less-than-nothing burger, less than zero calorie substitute for soul food. Closer to the Psychopath's Manifesto. All totally false, totally predatory. Despicable to anyone with a conscience, deciding to earn a buck by screwing over vulnerability wherever you find it.
I'm commission only, not real estate, but insurance. That's it. no salary, no benefits, no 401k, they don't even pay for my phone service. I get absolutely no pay but commission. At least twice a year I listen to Alec Baldwin's speech to motivate myself to not suck. 🤣 I can tell you that in this type of business, it's full of unethical assholes like the Pacino character that would skin their customers alive to close a sale. The reputation is earned. It's cut throat and very few make the customer's long term well-being their top priority.
Still a fantastic actor no matter what he is accused of.
why does the interviewer VLAD tv?
You know what it takes to sell real estate? ....... *BRASS BALLS*
Pacino got after him like a child
he said verbal
What the hell are you? 😂
GLEN Gary Glen Ross is not sales. Its grifting
one of ghislaine maxwells best friends!
Yep. Spacey and Trump.
@@mr.p.1020 Spacey and Clinton.
Except he isn’t.
@@Erin-ce5gs except he is and there are pictures
@@riftsalty7562 I've only seen one picture of them together. Doesn't mean that he knew her personally; plus from what I understand, Prince Andrew (who WAS a close friend of Maxwell and Epstein) arranged it as a gag photo anyways, since it was part of a private tour of the Palace for Bill Clinton in 2002. Maxwell was only there because she was a friend of the Prince. Plus Epstein wasn't on the tour, according to the Telegraph. According to multiple sources, KS only met Epstein ONCE in 2002; when he, along with Bill Clinton and Chris Rock, used his private plane for a charity trip to Africa. This trip was well documented, and there's no proof of them ever speaking or meeting after that. This photo was part of the same trip, taken before they left for Africa. As for why KS's name was in Epstein's black book; it was well known that Epstein, being a billionaire, collected contacts/names like others collect stamps. Many people who were in the black book were shocked because they'd only met Epstein briefly, or in some cases never met him at all. There's absolutely no evidence that KS knew anything about Epstein's illicit activities or that they were anything more than distant acquaintances. You could make that argument for Clinton, maybe, but not KS.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/07/03/exclusivehow-ghislaine-maxwell-kevin-spacey-relaxed-buckingham/
www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-did-i-end-up-in-epstein-s-little-black-book-
If anyone wants to buy or sell property in California, hit me up.
I am always available!
So this is the fairy ?
Kaizer Souze!
here’s one of the most talented artists the american cinema has ever seen and where is he? for what? because the country is fucked?
Gossip always finds an audience and when someone said Spacey had been a bit handsy and it was the MeToo moment, he had to go down. Sadly, they don't seem to be aware that they ruined House of Cards by doing so. I wonder if Michael Rappaport even regrets the timing, probably not.
@@blakerackley8874 Anthony Rapp, not Michael Rappaport. Made me chuckle, though
PLease come back
I will just come right out and say it: I still like him. I don’t give a shit what other people think about that. I don’t condone his actions, and he should be held accountable, but I just don’t buy that he’s a monster. Some of these allegations against him are just sounding like people trying to get their fifteen minutes of fame, and several were rejected by police, plus Heather Unruh's case was exposed as a money grab, so what does that tell you? I for one am happy that he's slowly coming back, and I'm glad that the metoo hysteria surrounding him is ending.
Also, just to clarify something since so many people keep calling him a pedophile: KEVIN IS NOT A PEDOPHILE. END OF STORY. A pedophile is attracted only to prepubescent children, which Kevin is not. The allegations concerning him have thus far only involved young ADULT men, so he doesn’t fit the description of a pedophile. Nor is he a rapist; the most he's been accused of thus far is groping people, and while I'm not defending his behavior (it was inappropriate and wrong), it's nowhere near the same thing as rape. Also, the incident with Anthony Rapp was inappropriate, yes, shouldn’t have happened but as far as I’m concerned it was likely a drunken accident. He did not rape or molest him, he simply lay on top of him, Anthony said no and got away, and that was it. Hardly assault. Even Rapp himself said it wasn't rape, and a lawyer told him he had no case (which would not be true if anything malicious had happened), so what does that tell you? I will say publicly that he is a good man, he is a decent man, and I am sorry this happened to him. And now you want me to discard him like garbage? I’m sorry people, I will not. For now, I still support him, and I don’t give a shit what people think of me because of that. You can think anything you like about me, because frankly, I’m beyond caring. Forgive me for believing you should have evidence and proof before you accuse someone of a crime, and also not wait thirty years to bring it up instead of doing something right then. We have a statute of limitations on crimes for a reason. Innocent until proven guilty.
I wonder if u would be so forgiving if it had happened to your son. Even if they were “young men” as u say. A crime is a crime no matter how u sugar coat it.
@@fi7452 Well, first of all, I can't have children, so your point is moot. But if we're going down that road, let me explain how I feel:
My family instilled in me from a young age that if I was ever harmed criminally in some way (being mugged, assaulted etc.), that I was to go to the police right away, because it would be more likely that they could catch the criminal and help me. And I have taken this advice to heart and used it. Prevention is everything. If I had a son, I would instill the same thing in him. I would have brought him up to be able to defend himself. I would also do everything possible to make sure he knew he could come to me if he was hurt.
2:03 disadvantages of humans.
Is that why his accusers withdrew ?
Too bad they cant undo the damage they did.
Don’t care. Spacey is still awesome
Kevin is so badass
Kevin Spacey sounds and looks like an older version of Robert Downey Jr. Of course, RDJ made a comeback from something not as heinous. Spacey can't come back from what happened even if he's innocent in court.
I'm not sure that's true; from what I gather, people have slowly started to forgive KS and welcome him back into the spotlight (I've heard he's been hired for a film project in Italy). If there's one thing I know about Hollywood as an outsider, it's that people forget.
If he made a comeback I'd watch.
Robert Downey Jr.? Nope, not seeing that resemblance at all. Not even a little bit.
ISNT HE A BEAUTIFUL MAN OMG GORGEOUS 👍⭐️⭐️⭐️💯💯💯💯🇺🇸🏴🇬🇧
Rolo Tomassi
I DONT CARE WHAT HE DID!!! i ALWAYS LIKED K. SPACEY AS AN ACTOR!!! Too bad.
He was set up
Pls elaborate..
Why do american actors, Keep snorting and rubbing their dial?
Cocaine.
@@SaintBuick u said it
I’m hindsight you can get a sense of his arrogance and sociopathology
that is just a crazy comment, there's nothing out of the ordinary here.
@@Cenot4ph I don't think it's crazy at all. He looks like a villain in real life
You're hindsight?
@@Cenot4ph Stop talking crap, shit heel, it emanates off the prick palpably in the first few seconds. Open your fucking eyes, or shut your fucking mouth.
Kevin is back and free
The rise and fall of Kevin Spacey: A timeline of sexual assault allegations
For more than 30 years, the award-winning actor could seemingly do no wrong.
By
Chris Francescani
Who farted?
He sounds a bit up his own arse in this interview.
I'd say (as a guess) that those who complained after a lot of years are jealous of how 'hot' he was and it kept them from being recognized. Their careers are nowhere near his accomplishments. He's hot, alright! Gorgeous! He would have to be gay. Damn. 😡
Lemme cool you off
You're the wrong sex and a few decades too old for him.
Grow a schlong and maybe he'd think you're hot, too. You already facially look like a man wearing cosmetics.