...simple logic tells you that if somebody wants you dead you have one course of action: To get them deader sooner.

- James Woods

The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols.

- James Woods

I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.

- James Woods

Filmmaking, like sex, isn't a polite enterprise. It involves a lot of mess and the bottom line is, if somebody ain't screaming, you're not doing your…

- James Woods

The bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny.

- James Woods

My second ex-wife was really kind of like a ship passing in the night. Only she turned out to be the Exxon Valdez.

- James Woods

...if [the 9/11/01 attacks] had happened to the Russians, about three major cities in the Middle East would have been parking lots in twenty minute a…

- James Woods

Give Bush 10 minutes before you hammer him. I think he's going to surprise people. He sounds simple and uncomplicated, but maybe that's what we need …

- James Woods

It is okay to fall, but not okay to stay on the ground.

- James Woods