James Spader Quotes

I didn't want to commit to a TV show.

If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so, whatever. With TV, it's six years.

'ER' was so huge that whatever I did coming back to television, I'd have to feel as strongly about.

As a matter of fact - it'll probably ruin my movie career - but I think better storytellers are in television.

A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.

I have a hit TV show.

I thought I wanted to be a brain surgeon until I realized all the schooling it required. I didn't like school very much so I had to come up with something else.

Something as unique as 'Scrubs' is a tough act to follow. It's hard to find something that good that you want to really make a commitment to.

I'm very excited to work with everybody on 'The Bridge' - the cast, the writing staff, the executive producers - the show is really good. I'm very lucky to be a part of it.

You can't really go into TV thinking, 'Maybe I can make a few bucks doing this thing I'm only kind of interested in to support my one true love, which is prose fiction.' I think you have to love what you're doing to do it well.

I think a long-term TV show is probably not for me, but doing a few years of something could be interesting.

If things had gone according to my plans, I'd be a lawyer. I never dreamt of being an actress.

I don't want to carry a network show. I don't want to give up 10 months, working 17 hours a day, up at five in the morning.

I'm not going to leave one of the best shows to do another TV show.

I think nothing I've done has impacted my life as much as working on 'Treme,' because it was the first project that I worked on in the United States after being an actor in the Netherlands my whole life, basically.

I loved working on 'House,' but I never ever want to do another medical show. It's 'fiddly' stuff.

At Kobe, whither I fled from Hong Kong, I took a step of great importance. I cut off my cue, which had been growing all my life.

It's pretty surreal to be doing a show on HBO with pals.

I literally will write Shonda Rhimes, the creator of 'Grey's,' an e-mail once a month or so and just say, 'Hey, I love you and thank you.' That was my moment. Because of that, I'm doing 'Magic City.'

If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.

In many ways, my decision to come out changed the course not only of my personal life but of my professional one as well.

I did a network show in the U.S. before, and I loved it, but you have eight days to shoot an episode, and it's just a ridiculous pace.

Becoming Miss America was one of those things. It immediately changed what I thought I was going to do with the rest of my life.

When I decided to move to Chelsea, I got a bit of stick at the time, but I didn't move just because of the money or just because it was a big club. I moved there because I wanted to play for them.

Leaving Impact was a very difficult decision, as I had six months left on a very lucrative and talent-friendly contract. Anthem lived up to that contract and always treated me with the utmost respect as a businessman and a person.