Able Quote by James Spader

“I look for things that are very different from my life, and that are curious and idiosyncratic to me. And then, I like to find if I'm able, just a little bit, to step into a world that I know very little about. That's great fun.”

James Spader

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It's fun to explore behavior that you can't explore in your own life, so you fool around with it in acting.

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When I'm not working, I don't get my hair cut. I don't know what the next character looks like.

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