James Spader Quotes
I like to read and listen to music and go for walks and travel and see art. I enjoy cooking and eating and spending time with my family. I don't really find myself searching for things on the television very much.
Quotes to Explore
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.
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I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
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In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics... am I eating right, am I getting enough sleep, am I getting some physical and mental exercise everyday.
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What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?
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When people say crazy stuff about me or my family, I don't take it seriously.
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Direction is the most invisible part of the theatrical art. It's not like the conductor in the symphony orchestra performance because he's standing in front of you waiving his arms. You now what he's doing. You don't know what the director is doing unless you know a lot about theater and even then you can only deduce it. You know it when you go to rehearsal. You really know it when they are rehearsing something of yours. I learned more in the rehearsals for The Letter than I have ever dreamed of know in the theater as a critic. If it doesn't make me a better critic, I'm an idiot.
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I like to read and listen to music and go for walks and travel and see art. I enjoy cooking and eating and spending time with my family. I don't really find myself searching for things on the television very much.
