James Spader Quotes

I'm a big believer in spontaneity.

You must plan to be spontaneous.

The essence of play is that the sequence of actions is fluid and scattered.

I am more of a surprise kind of guy. I love to find out as I go.

I like to improvise; I think it's just a healthy thing to do, to keep everything loose and fun.

I think there are actors who are like, 'Okay, what am I doing, how am I doing it, what's the appeal? Tell me what to do, what are the exact lines from the script? Okay, I got it.' I am not that way. I would be a terrible bus driver. I'd want to be like, 'Oh, let's take this side road! Let's see what happens when we go down this back alley.'

I like to work spontaneously.

I try not to plan that too much.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

Spontaneity is everything to me, working without a net.

I do not believe in planning.

I'm all about spontaneity. I think it makes for greatness.

I am always living in the now, so I like what fate brings to you. That's always fun for me. To have a process and someone be like, 'How about this?' And you just grab onto that and see where it takes you.

I'm not a big planner. Things always sort of surprise me.

Let's just start and see what happens.

I like to leave a little room to innovate and change things around while I'm working.

When you work with an actor and then you discover new things that are better, I think you gotta be free to be able to go with the new things that you're finding. I think that's very important. I have a strong idea when I go to shoot a movie but I also love to discover things when I'm on set as well.

I'm really keen to try things. I love improvisation. It's quite exciting.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

When I do a take, I very often try things that I haven't planned to try to see if I can pull it off.

I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.

I'm not somebody who plans. There were times I planned a lot in my life, and it never turns out how you plan it. So I think it's important not to. I'm a very spontaneous person.