James Van Der Beek Quotes
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I think anybody with an insecurity, which is everyone, appreciates the fact that it's much easier to be a predator than it is to be prey.
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I remember one day during my freshman year of high school, when as usual I was obsessively listening to a cast recording: it may have been 'Jesus Christ Superstar.' And I remember sitting there, totally absorbed, saying to myself, 'I can do this.'
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You are incredibly fortunate whatever success falls on you, which is what happened with me.
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I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.
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I never wear white or black socks.
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I've always been a clown trapped in a leading man's body.
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When you're the lead of a series, things happen around you, and you react to them.
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The more you make fun of yourself and don't try to go for any kind of respect, the more people seem to respect you.
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I believe every religion captures a piece of the truth.
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It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want.
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You get a script and you love it. You find a director that you trust, and it becomes all about how do I commit to this as fully as possible? And the last thing you can afford to have in your mind is what are other people going to think of this?
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I started out doing theater in N.Y.C.
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I've never really had a problem with the imagination level of an audience. They're always smarter and savvier than any studio exec will give them credit for.
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You can't really pretend something is rosier than it is and expect people to buy it.
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I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once, then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further. So, I just keep my private life to myself.
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I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan. That's why it's my favorite city. You can do what you want without attracting a crowd of curious onlookers.
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The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do.
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A lot of movies you do because they're fun, they make people forget about their day.
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If a rumor comes out that I’m gay, I could care less. There are so many worse things that they could be saying.
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In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.
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You know, I'm not big on conspiracy theory. It does really kind of get my blood going when I find out there really are conspiracies that actually happened.
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Being the lead of the show and working a lot of hours - all good stuff, a tremendous education, incredible opportunity, it changed my life - it was a marathon, and by the end of it I was pretty beat.
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At a young age, acting was so inspiring and exciting, because to me it was play - make-believe, pretend.
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I'm kind of shocked that it's taken Hollywood so long to realize that so many great movie talents can come out of television. One of the reasons they do is that on TV you don't have the luxury of a film's big budget, and people have to compensate with creativity.