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.

- James Spader

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 …

- James Spader

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 movi…

- James Spader

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

- James Spader

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 p…

- James Spader

The first perk of theatre is the girls.

- James Spader

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 obligat…

- James Spader

The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism in them. I think (Alan Sh…

- James Spader

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…

- James Spader