James Spader Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.
-
We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
-
If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
-
I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
-
More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
-
Anyone who is awake and aware knows that these quote-unquote bathroom bills or any legislation discriminating against LGBTQ citizens is horrible.
-
If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.
-
25 years ago, when I started in New York, I had the pleasure to cook for Andy Warhol. At the time, I could have traded art for food - I should have done so, because I could get his work for nothing!
-
Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
-
I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare.
-
Hillary Clinton wants to leave behind No Child Left Behind.
-
Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
-
I'm so excited about 'Shattered;' it's something I've really enjoyed working in, and it's very different from anything I've done before. I've always been a character actor and done a lot of support work. I've never really been the lead actor, so I'll try and use what I've learned along the way from the other projects.
-
I wanted to be a stuntman. I didn't really want to be an actor. I took classes when I was younger, but I really sucked.
-
Once you have a central character who announces in the first five minutes of the show that he feels whooped by life and that he's had enough, I'm in. I'm hooked.
-
Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.
-
I love to interview outrageous people who speak their minds; also, people who have some kind of mystery attached to them.
-
I started Verite on savings from three years working at Applebee's in Times Square. I was a ridiculously good waitress. I was making more money than my brother, who worked at a start-up.
-
I'm 40 next year and I'm very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses.
-
I did not make this film about Frank Abagnale because of what he did . . but because of what he has done with his life the past 30 years.
-
I surf, swim, play water polo, and I paddle an outrigger canoe with my team. I'm also a klutz on land, so water is my thing.
-
Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.
-
The first perk of theater is the girls.
