James Spader

Acting for me, is a passion, but it's also a job, and I've always approached it as such. I have a certain manual-laborist view of acting. There's no shame in taking a film because you need some money. ↗

— James Spader

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Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it's not really worthy of it. ↗

— James Spader

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I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it. ↗

— James Spader

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I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot. ↗

— James Spader

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I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he is, in a way he's become diluted. ↗

— James Spader

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I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically. ↗

— James Spader

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Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe. ↗

— James Spader

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Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important to you. I probably am closer to that. ↗

— James Spader

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The first perk of theater is the girls. ↗

— James Spader

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The script is the coloring book that you're given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines. ↗

— James Spader

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