James Spader Quotes

My career had been split pretty evenly between good guys and bad guys until I finally grew into myself enough to play a decent antihero, where you can combine the two.

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• People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Music
  • Dad

• Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Blood
  • Vampire
  • Imperialism

• I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Time
  • Like
  • Dance

• Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.

  

  Madisen Beaty
  • School
  • Friends
  • Parents

• I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.

  

  Fleur East
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Want

• The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Beginning

• In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Far
  • Void
  • Fill

• Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Money
  • Government
  • More

• When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Research

• The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Passion
  • Miracle
  • Gift

• I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Character
  • Action
  • Train

• Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Family
  • School
  • Job

• A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Down
  • Build
  • Carpenter

• The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Will
  • Nation
  • Forgotten

• Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • People
  • Work
  • Sound

• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Style

• Training a dog, to me, is on a par with learning to dance with my wife or teaching my son to ski. These are fun things we do together. If anyone even talks about dominating the dog or hurting him or fighting him or punishing him, don't go there.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • Together
  • Fun
  • Learning

• More is asked of you on stage. It's no way to make a living. But it's like a bullfight. You find out who can do it and who can't.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • You
  • Find
  • Stage

• Oh, God. Mate, I've written about 800 songs, and that's no exaggeration!

  

  Anne-Marie
  • God

• Who wants to leave the door open to being dominated physically by another human being? Jiu Jitsu gives you the ability to not be dominated by that person, and to me, that's real peace of mind. I don't have to worry about that when I'm walking around in the world.

  

  Jocko Willink
  • World
  • Mind
  • Real

• I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors.

  Curtis Sittenfeld
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  • Question

• I'd heard that swimming feels so good when you're pregnant, and I love being in the ocean. I was even paddle boarding up until 17 weeks, but then my center of gravity and balance were completely off.

  

  Marisa Miller
  • Up
  • Good
  • Balance

• Kylie Minogue is just a demonic little idiot as far as I'm concerned. She gets cool dance producers to work with her for some bizarre reason, I don't know why. She doesn't even have a good name. It's a stupid name, Kylie, I just don't get it.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Good
  • Work
  • Why

• My career had been split pretty evenly between good guys and bad guys until I finally grew into myself enough to play a decent antihero, where you can combine the two.

  

  James Spader
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  • Bad
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