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.
Quotes to Explore
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I am tone deaf.
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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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It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.
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When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be a writer and that it had something to do with survival and with ethics and fighting against evil. I admired her, though her diary remained terrifying and mysterious to me. She was a character in a real fairy tale - fairy tales are brutal.
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I saw 'Star Wars' for the first time when I was four years old. Sure, I thought Princess Leia was awesome. But the character I identified with most was Luke Skywalker. I left the theater certain the Force was strong with me, that I could train to be a Jedi and wield a lightsaber just like Luke.
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As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.
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Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.
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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.
