James Spader Quotes

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• Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our…
• I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.
• I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.
• Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I mean, you are…
• I've had a lazy career, sometimes one film a year, sometimes none. I'm walking around in the street and doing this other thing, living, that…
• If I dont need the money, I dont work. Im going to spend time with my family and friends, and Im going to travel and…
• The first perk of theatre is the girls.
• Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe.
• I'd like to thank the academy and I'd like to thank my mother and I'd like to thank my mother again, because I forgot to…
• Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us. How dare we let it into our decision-making, into our…
• If I don't need the money, I don't work.
• Acting for me, is a passion, but it's also a job, and I've always approached it as such. I have a certain manual-laborist view of…
• 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 and…
• I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the…
• 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 be…
• The script is the coloring book that you're given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and…
• Every film you work on is different, and that's part of what it's like for anybody who works on a film, is to learn how…
• I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and…
• For me, when working on a film or play or television show, everything for me starts with the screenplay and I am devoted to that…
• I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he is,…

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