My career had been split pretty evenly between good guys and bad guys until I finally grew into myself enough to play a decent antihero, where you can combine the two. — James Spader Copy Share Image
The protagonists that I've played tend to be people who make trouble. Or even if they don't make it, they certainly disrupt things. It's fun to do that in life as well. But I don't think I ever played myself. — James Spader Copy Share Image
I played cops and robbers and pirates and all the rest when I was a kid, but I didn't want to grow up and… — James Spader Copy Share Image
When doing theater, you have to find great satisfaction in the small things. There's going to be a repetition and a redundancy night after… — James Spader Copy Share Image
Growing up, I didn't have any comic books, at all. But my friend had a trunk full of them, so comic books were like… — James Spader Copy Share Image
I'm not eager at all to present my life out there for public consumption. I like to do one or two films a year… — James Spader Copy Share Image
For me, when working on a film or play or television show, everything for me starts with the screenplay and I am devoted to… — James Spader Copy Share Image
I am not very responsible economically. I have a history working on films for years and years, and by the time I was starting… — James Spader Copy Share Image
It's fun to explore behavior that you can't explore in your own life, so you fool around with it in acting. — James Spader Copy Share Image
Working in theater, film, or television are three different jobs for an actor, and I accept them as such. — James Spader Copy Share Image
When I'm not working, I don't get my hair cut. I don't know what the next character looks like. — James Spader Copy Share Image
I've made a lot of very small movies that may not have had a large initial audience. Then it shows up on cable. — James Spader Copy Share Image
