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Top 20 James Spader Quotes (2025 Update)

James Spader Quote: “Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us. How dare we let it into our decision-making, into our livelihoods, into our relationships. It’s funny, isn’t it? We take a day a year to dress up in costumes and celebrate fear.”

1. “Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us. How dare we let it into our decision-making, into our livelihoods, into our relationships. It’s funny, isn’t it? We take a day a year to dress up in costumes and celebrate fear.”

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James Spader Quote: “The script is the coloring book that you’re given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.”

2. “The script is the coloring book that you’re given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.”

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James Spader Quote: “I look for things that are very different from my life, and that are curious and idiosyncratic to me. And then, I like to find if I’m able, just a little bit, to step into a world that I know very little about. That’s great fun.”

3. “I look for things that are very different from my life, and that are curious and idiosyncratic to me. And then, I like to find if I’m able, just a little bit, to step into a world that I know very little about. That’s great fun.”

— James Spader

James Spader Quote: “If I don’t need the money, I don’t work.”

4. “If I don’t need the money, I don’t work.”

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James Spader Quote: “Working in theater, film or television are three different jobs for an actor, and I accept them as such.”

5. “Working in theater, film or television are three different jobs for an actor, and I accept them as such.”

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James Spader Quote: “It can never, ever, ever get weird enough for me.”

6. “It can never, ever, ever get weird enough for me.”

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James Spader Quote: “I’d like to thank the academy and I’d like to thank my mother and I’d like to thank my mother again, because I forgot to thank her last year.”

7. “I’d like to thank the academy and I’d like to thank my mother and I’d like to thank my mother again, because I forgot to thank her last year.”

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James Spader Quote: “It’s necessary to readjust and then try again. And then readjust and try again. Fathers have to do that with sons and mothers have to do that with daughters. The level of readjustment isn’t quite so much when fathers are dealing with daughters and mothers are dealing with sons.”

8. “It’s necessary to readjust and then try again. And then readjust and try again. Fathers have to do that with sons and mothers have to do that with daughters. The level of readjustment isn’t quite so much when fathers are dealing with daughters and mothers are dealing with sons.”

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James Spader Quote: “I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston.”

9. “I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston.”

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James Spader Quote: “Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important to you. I probably am closer to that.”

10. “Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important to you. I probably am closer to that.”

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James Spader Quote: “I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don’t mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically.”

11. “I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don’t mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically.”

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James Spader Quote: “Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe.”

12. “Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe.”

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James Spader Quote: “I don’t think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It’s all just pretend. That’s what’s fun about it.”

13. “I don’t think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It’s all just pretend. That’s what’s fun about it.”

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James Spader Quote: “Acting for me, is a passion, but it’s also a job, and I’ve always approached it as such. I have a certain manual-laborist view of acting. There’s no shame in taking a film because you need some money.”

14. “Acting for me, is a passion, but it’s also a job, and I’ve always approached it as such. I have a certain manual-laborist view of acting. There’s no shame in taking a film because you need some money.”

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James Spader Quote: “Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it’s not really worthy of it.”

15. “Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it’s not really worthy of it.”

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James Spader Quote: “I’ve had a lazy career, sometimes one film a year, sometimes none. I’m walking around in the street and doing this other thing, living, that I’m much more interested in. I just do some acting on the side.”

16. “I’ve had a lazy career, sometimes one film a year, sometimes none. I’m walking around in the street and doing this other thing, living, that I’m much more interested in. I just do some acting on the side.”

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James Spader Quote: “For me, when working on a film or play or television show, everything for me starts with the screenplay and I am devoted to that and that is what I work from. Any research I do or any preparation I do on my own is all ultimately in service of that.”

17. “For me, when working on a film or play or television show, everything for me starts with the screenplay and I am devoted to that and that is what I work from. Any research I do or any preparation I do on my own is all ultimately in service of that.”

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James Spader Quote: “I’m not eager at all to present my life out there for public consumption. I like to do one or two films a year and then do what is absolutely obligatory in terms of promoting them. My life outside of films is vital to me.”

18. “I’m not eager at all to present my life out there for public consumption. I like to do one or two films a year and then do what is absolutely obligatory in terms of promoting them. My life outside of films is vital to me.”

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James Spader Quote: “The first perk of theatre is the girls.”

19. “The first perk of theatre is the girls.”

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James Spader Quote: “I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.”

20. “I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.”

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James Spader Quote: “I played cops and robbers and pirates and all the rest when I was a kid, but I didn’t want to grow up and be an actor and play cops and robbers and pirates. I wanted to grow up and be that, be cops and robbers and pirates.”

21. “I played cops and robbers and pirates and all the rest when I was a kid, but I didn’t want to grow up and be an actor and play cops and robbers and pirates. I wanted to grow up and be that, be cops and robbers and pirates.”

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James Spader Quote: “I think also there’s no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he is, in a way he’s become diluted.”

22. “I think also there’s no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he is, in a way he’s become diluted.”

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James Spader Quote: “Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I mean, you are only making movies. It is a lot less pressure than being a surgeon; although it seemed like the only other thing that I was qualified for was manual labour.”

23. “Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I mean, you are only making movies. It is a lot less pressure than being a surgeon; although it seemed like the only other thing that I was qualified for was manual labour.”

— James Spader

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