As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters. They're never perfect. They're flawed people put in extraordinary circumstances. — James Badge Dale Copy Share Image
I got beat up by the comic-book kids when I was younger! They were cooler than me. Talk about levels of geekdom, I was a couple rungs below the kids who read comic books. Yeah. Not so cool, man. — James Badge Dale Copy Share Image
I'm a little bit superstitious, and I think that just comes from playing hockey. I won't avoid the number thirteen. A big one for… — James Badge Dale Copy Share Image
You want to work with good people. When you're working with good people, it frees you up. There's nothing worse, as an actor, to… — James Badge Dale Copy Share Image
The physicality was important to me. Because the film has Shane Black's dialogue, and [Robert] Downey's delivery, and you look at [Jon] Favreau, Don… — James Badge Dale Copy Share Image
I went through about 40 different hats until we found one that fit. It had to fit me and fit the character, more importantly,… — James Badge Dale Copy Share Image
These stunt guys are good at what they do and they're professional. A smart actor will step back and say, "I'm going to let… — James Badge Dale Copy Share Image
I don't know why I just remembered this, and I haven't told anybody this, but we were shooting in Canyon de Chelly and we… — James Badge Dale Copy Share Image
Marvel is very secretive, so there was no script. About six months before production, they gave me some pages and it was from a… — James Badge Dale Copy Share Image
Speaking of childhood fantasy, we were doing a Western, but we were also just hanging out. You work, and you ride and ride and… — James Badge Dale Copy Share Image
When you're outside in those elements, there's something out there that takes it out of you, so you work real hard. It was physically… — James Badge Dale Copy Share Image
I grew up in a crazy, gypsy-like household of actors, dancers and loony Broadway people. It was their way of life, and I didn't… — James Badge Dale Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty private person, so I'd like to say I'm a good ear and that I keep my mouth shut. — James Badge Dale Copy Share Image
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