James Spader Quotes
Acting for me, is a passion, but it's also a job, and I've always approached it as such. I have a certain manual-laborist view of acting. There's no shame in taking a film because you need some money.
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Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
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Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.
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I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.
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Every so often, we - women in film and TV - get annoyed and frustrated. We kick up a fuss and make some gains. But then we become complacent, and things slide backwards again until the next generation comes up and gets frustrated again.
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I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.
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All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.
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The more you wish to be, the wiser you are; while the wish to have is apt to be foolish in proportion to its largeness.
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It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.
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From a Child I was fond of Reading, and all the little Money that came into my Hands was ever laid out in Books.
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In Catch-22, the figure of the black market and the ground of war merge into a monster presided over by the syndicate. When war and market merge, all money transactions begin to drip blood. (p. 211)
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Acting for me, is a passion, but it's also a job, and I've always approached it as such. I have a certain manual-laborist view of acting. There's no shame in taking a film because you need some money.
