James Spader Quotes

It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action.

I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way.

To find people who don't want anything is rare.

I'm not a happy person when I'm working.

I'm very technical in everything I do. But one thing I don't do is set goals. Goals are actually a hindrance to me, because they limit you.

When I was at graduate school, you wouldn't have recognised me. I was so different - and not a nice person: a grumpy, surly, upset, confused, lost person.

I'm useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone's nerves, including my own. I'm not very good at amusing myself.

I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.

How many people just get up on Monday and do the same thing they've done every single Monday - go to work and just turn on route automatic and no longer have any meaning in their life?

I don't find my life that interesting. The shows, maybe. But not me.

Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

School didn't work for me. I hated it.

I've never been interested enough to have a career trajectory. I've never had any ambition or thought of what I should be doing or had any idea of what I'd like to do. Never. And still don't. And if something comes along, I say 'Fine.'

I love Hugh Laurie, but I don't want to be a guy who goes to work every day for nine months of the year in a corner of Burbank. I really don't. I like doing a bit here and a bit there and strange things, and I think that's held me back.

People who are over-educated become risk-averse.

I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.

I was fed up with being just plain Jane.

Acting had become something I did and did well - but didn't particularly enjoy.

I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.

Sometimes you just work, you work, you work, and you have no life, no boyfriend, you have no more friends, no more nothing, you just make movies, and you're tired, and you don't know why. Then everybody says, 'Oh you are so lucky, you are working!' And you're like, 'Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's so great!'

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

I feel like sometimes people on television shows can start taking things for granted, or they don't want to be here or something like that.

I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive.

I am never honored. My career is hilarious to me. I am either under the radar or over the radar.