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James Spader

American Actor

Born: Feb 7, 1960

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I'm not someone so much interested in exploring a slice of life unless that is down the corridor, around the corner, up the alley, and down the rabbit hole. That, I like. James Spader

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Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe. 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'm not a planner. I like to try something different, to just see what happens. 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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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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I've had a lazy career. Sometimes one film a year, sometimes none. I'm walking around in the street and doing this other thing, living, that I'm much more interested in. I just do some acting on the side. James Spader

Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I mean, you are only making movies. It is a lot less pressure than being a surgeon; although it seemed like the only other thing that I was qualified for was manual labour. James Spader

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You know, when you choose to make your living as an actor, it's all fine and good to look at it as some kind of artistic endeavor. At its best, it is that. But the fact is, most of the actors out there don't earn $3 million a picture and can't afford to take two years off between films and look for the right thing. Most of us are tradesmen. James Spader

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I'm not eager at all to present my life out there for public consumption. I like to do one or two films a year and then do what is absolutely obligatory in terms of promoting them. My life outside of films is vital to me. James Spader

For me, when working on a film or play or television show, everything for me starts with the screenplay and I am devoted to that and that is what I work from. Any research I do or any preparation I do on my own is all ultimately in service of that. James Spader

I am not very responsible economically. I have a history working on films for years and years, and by the time I was starting the next film, I was starting from zero again. James Spader

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Working in theater, film, or television are three different jobs for an actor, and I accept them as such. James Spader

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I've never been a big TV watcher. James Spader

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I have very, very strong obsessive-compulsive issues. I'm very particular. James Spader

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I didn't really look like a character actor, yet those were the roles I loved to play. If you were a character actor who didn't necessarily look like a character actor, you had to play bad guys. James Spader

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When I'm not working, I don't get my hair cut. I don't know what the next character looks like. James Spader

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I've had tremendous opportunities in film and continue to have them, but it's such a different thing to do a television show, and I'm very lucky to be able to do them both. James Spader

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I pretty quickly move from an idea to possibilities for execution. If there's one advantage, I think, with working in television for even a short amount of time is trying to gain a faculty for processing a storyline or an idea and how to then best implement that and execute that as swiftly as possible. James Spader

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The protagonists that I've played tend to be people who make trouble. Or even if they don't make it, they certainly disrupt things. It's fun to do that in life as well. But I don't think I ever played myself. James Spader

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I don't think anybody in the entertainment industry or in politics is surprised by the fact that those worlds are rife with promiscuity and irresponsibility - certainly a lack of accountability. James Spader

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It's fun to explore behavior that you can't explore in your own life, so you fool around with it in acting. James Spader

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