James Spader Quotes

There are some actors who are very good at developing things, who have... 'things in the pipeline.' I am abysmal at that kind of thing, loathe it, and am a terrible planner. Unless I'm showing up on the set and acting, I prefer to have nothing to do with the actual business of being an actor.

James Spader

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 7, 1960

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GoodBusinessI AmShowing UpActing

Gluten is so ridiculous. Don't invite me to a dinner with someone who is gluten-free. I ruin the party.

Maye Musk

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I don't worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you'll go insane.

Michael Caine

WorryYouGoCleanOverOut

Hollywood is a far safer place to work than working abroad, because of the skill level, and because of the safety considerations that experience and unionization have created.

John Rhys-Davies

WorkExperienceSafetyPlaceSkill

I find pleasure in things that are simple.

Stephan Jenkins

SimpleFindPleasureThings

It's true that my research expertise is in biology: for example, the Ebola virus, the Marburg virus, and monkey pox, and not bacteriology as in the case of the anthrax organism. It's also true that I have never, ever worked with anthrax in my life. It's a separate field from the research I was performing at Fort Detrick.

Steven Hatfill

LifeResearchMy LifeBiologyTrue

David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like him. If you hate him, you really hate him. He's someone who's into controversy, you know what I mean? That's David Mamet.

Tom Hardy

GreatHateSomeoneYouKnowMean

Without significant reform, the Social Security Administration will be legally and financially unable to pay full promised benefits within a generation.

Ron Lewis

GenerationSecurityWillPayWithin

Many modern people have gone so far in their dependence on others for their feeling of reality that they are afraid that without it they would lose the sense of their own existence.

Rollo May

PeopleRealityLoseFeelingOthers

I've always enjoyed film, but I'm a little afraid of it because I think it is very powerful as a medium. You have the visuals, the sound, the colors, all of these things coming at you, and they transport you physically so it becomes this surround sound, virtual reality.

Mickalene Thomas

ColorsThinkRealityYouPowerful

What the church is really concerned about is what endures.

Donald Wuerl

ChurchConcernedAboutReally

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

Constance Baker Motley

WhiteClassPopulationMiddleWide

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

BeautyTimeFlyingHoursSwiftBrow

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