James Spader Quotes
I'm paid well and am demanding of the people I work with, and therefore, I feel I should bring a lot.
Quotes to Explore
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
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No man may make another free.
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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I could move to New York. I love it here.
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I thought, 'I have ideas. I'm creative.' I just didn't see why I should be pigeon-holing myself in the business world or staying in corporate America when I already knew that I was capable of taking risks.
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I love filming in Britain.
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I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dating a few people who were from old money and a few from new money in my 20s, I just sort of became obsessed with this idea of clueless rich people.
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I'm paid well and am demanding of the people I work with, and therefore, I feel I should bring a lot.
