James Spader Quotes
I didn't watch much television growing up, and before I did 'Boston Legal,' I had no understanding of what it was like for a viewer to look forward to finding out what was going to happen the next week.
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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I don't like allegories.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.
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Never demand of another that which would constitute his sacrifice to you. Never grant that which would constitute your sacrifice to him.
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The best thing we can do with rejection is to make it a learning experience - rejection is a great teacher.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
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I didn't watch much television growing up, and before I did 'Boston Legal,' I had no understanding of what it was like for a viewer to look forward to finding out what was going to happen the next week.
