American - Actor | March 8, 1977 -
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.
James Van Der Beek
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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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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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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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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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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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Ultimately, I'd love to be able to work in film.
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You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time.
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I'm pretty much your average, energy-saving-light-bulbs-recycling citizen.
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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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You buy a house and you get it checked out and you feel like you've kind of made your mark here in some way. And then an act of God just comes up the coast and has the potential to just completely wipe it clean. Weather like that is certainly humbling.
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