James Spader Quotes

I like projects in which I can really act and not be me all the time.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.

I love the possibility that anything can happen in any moment with acting. That you have the opportunity to experience lives and adventures that you may not have otherwise.

Acting is a bit of a substitute for life.

I'd had an early stint in acting school, and there was something satisfying about becoming a character, about being inside another mind that you had to create out of yourself. As I moved toward a life in writing, I found many of the things I'd learned in acting school still applied.

I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.

That's one of the really cool things about being an actor. You get to explore all different parts of yourself.

I think that's the great thing about acting: you get to play different characters and enhance one part of yourself to really bring that out and create a new person.

It's one of the main things that I love about my job. You are never playing yourself, so I really love that I get to be someone else, play a different character and take on that persona, but I also have to take on their qualifications.

Something that I really enjoy doing is creating and being a part of very different characters and very different projects.

I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.

I think I first got into acting through church. I would go to these church retreats, and they would tell us to make a skit or make a video and present it to the rest of the group. And I started doing that. And I fell in love with it.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

I think the challenge for an actor is always to see which parts of you you can explore and go have fun with.

I love the process of discovering a new world - that's why I'm passionate about acting. It's just discovering life, feelings, ideas and thought.

As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to play, you shouldn't be an actor.

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

Creating a character on or off the stage is an escape.