James Spader Quotes
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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I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.
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I'm a big 'Firefly' fan. I'm a Nathan Fillion fan because of 'Firefly.'
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
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I love India.
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The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
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There are a couple people who have complained on other teams about some of the things that Pittsburgh players have done. Some of that goes in the category of gamesmanship. Some of that goes to the fact that we need to be vigilant as a league to make sure that players aren't unnecessarily and inappropriately hurt.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
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I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.
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I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.
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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
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If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'
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I don't try to pretend to be what I'm not. I don't feel I need to do anything outrageous.
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My dad died of a heart attack when I was 15. I was bullied mercilessly in middle school. I went through a divorce - those not-so-great things are all a part of me, and they give me a place to go when I cover those stories on the news. I'm more empathetic, more relatable because of them.
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While it is challenging working with a kid, because they're so of the moment all the time. My acting style is to try to take something from my life that the character can relate to and that I can relate the character to.
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I think improv training really orients you to character development, more than taking a Strasberg class or Meisner class. Not only is it about developing character really quickly, but it's also about being a good partner in the scene.
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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.
