James St. James Quotes

I was a club kid. I was on the cover of 'New York' magazine and discovered like that.

I read, watch television, watch movies, hang out with family. I like my clothes and I have great cars, and I drive those. But for most people, it's like, "That's boring. You don't club? You don't party?"

I like to go to the clubs. As long as the environment permits, and it's not too knuckleheadish, I'm there, I go to the club. Because that's where you get inspiration from.

Everything I do comes from the clubs. If I lose that, I'm done.

My following is straight. I'm so glad.

I go out in New York, and I think, boy, you can look at someone and pretty much determine their zip code. Everyone seems to want to conform. I wonder, are they all just button-pressers, on the Internet all day long? I don't know.

This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.

I don't think of myself as a New York actor; I think about this guy who's an actor who happens to be from New York.

In credits, I'm 'Michael' sometimes now, but people know you as something, so there's no point fighting it. 'Squiggle,' you'll always be 'Prince,' and 'The Rock,' just accept it. I want to move on, but not that much. So I'm still known as 'Johnny Vegas.'

I'm quite looking forward to the fact that people know me as Richard rather than Craig.

New York is in my DNA.

iphone therefore I am.

I was always Missy, never Melissa. I went to college, and I thought it was so much more interesting to go by a different name, and then it just kind of stuck.

I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had.

I think it's pretty clear that the Internet as a whole has not had a strong notion of identity. And identity means, 'Who am I?' Fundamentally, what Facebook has done has built a way to figure out who people are.

Me talking about political issues on a social platform was kind of an accident. It's something that's a part of my everyday - it's super central to who I am as a person.

I'm not enough of one of those public personalities who feels as though he's been one-dimensionalized. I don't feel that strongly enough.

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

I've always just considered myself a New Yorker, you know.

A lot of the attitude I used to have about being from New York when I was younger just disappeared when I started to the rest of the world.

New York has a deep culture of house and dance music, and to be able to tap into that is my way of shutting off. I go to friends' parties and local spots around the area: places I can go to, have a dance, and forget about being an actor and the attention.

I am happy that Delhi is now catching up fast on the nightlife circuit. The city has a rocking night life.

Social media should be a true sense of who you are.

People call me Swimone more than Simone now.... Not quite used to that yet!

The web is at a really important turning point right now. Up until recently, the default on the web has been that most things aren’t social and most things don’t use your real identity. We’re building toward a web where the default is social.