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There are certainly lots of quotes worth to mention, but I'd like to begin with my fave one: "I like it a lot dirtier." Here are a some more: "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." "I don't run out of gas. That always seems to me to be the most ridiculous thing to do. You've got a car that's got a needle on it slowly but surely telling you your're using up your fuel, and once it gets to a certain point it's action." "I'm a very romantic person and I think we've been taught to believe that love is something ordinary, that everyone can find it, but I think real love is the rarest thing in the world. I have fallen in love, and I'm lucky for it." "I don't try to be mysterious. I just protect my private life very carefully. I don't go out a great deal. To see and be seen, I could care less about. I don't go to see movies at big premieres. If I go out, I go to a quiet place for a meal or I might go listen to live music with a whole lot of people who are more interested in listening to the music than who is sitting next to them at the show." "I had real trouble, actually, for a long time, getting people to hire me. My anxiety used to manifest itself in strange ways. I'd go in to read for some innocent, vulnerable character, and the feedback would be, 'Well, we met Jimmy...and he scared us.'" - 1990 "I find that everything relates to sexuality. It's unavoidable, inevitable. It is what it's all about." "I'll give up control if I trust a person, but I don't trust easily." - 2003 "I've been naked or at least partially naked in most of the films I've done. The trouble is, although I'm relatively young I have two kids so there are a lot of cookies, brownies and ice-cream laying around the house. So if I read a script and I'm going to be naked I get into the gym. Unless I'm playing somebody who's supposed to be out of shape. But if your charachter is in shape, there's no way round it." - 2000 "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." - 2005 "I have a sense for violence, and I have a sense for ruthlessness, and I have a sense for viciousness, and I certainly understand the relationship between pain and eroticism. I have a very strong point of reference for that.” "I mean, I’ve never been much of a planner in terms of my business. I’m not very good at that, and I have not given tremendous thought to what to look for and what I would want to do, toward building a career. I wasn’t particularly curious about it and I really had no idea about what that would be like. And then when I started doing it – and, I guess that’s part of the reason why I did it because I was so ignorant, you know? And ignorance really IS bliss." "I realized how much I liked it and how sort of addictive it is, obsessive compulsive. And I have a very addictive personality, you know, so I've become rather intoxicated by it. So I really look forward to getting the next script. I mean, I REALLY look forward to it. That's something I think I would miss if I wasn't doing the show." - About 'Boston Legal' "I started doing theater when I started thinking of nothing but girls," he said. "I can't imagine that the two don't relate. I don't mean to be glib. In sports and in many other areas, girls and boys are seperated. But in theater, you're all mixed in together. How can it get any better than that?" "I took the film because I was interested in doing that part. Looking at work as stepping stones is something I don't have any time or energy for. It seems a shame to look at your work as some sort of means to an end, because the end in death, you know? The means is the flesh and blood, so you'd better enjoy it. F*** the end." - Why he accepted the lead in 'Sex, Lies and Videotape' "I was just trying to put sentences together because I was so ill-prepared and surprised. Most of the other people accepting needed more time, but I wanted the music to come up so I could get the hell off of there." - After James won his third EMMY "If I don't need the money, I don't work. I don't mind going to somebody and saying, 'Okay, this is how much money I need to pay my bills for the next six months. If you pay me that, I'll do the film'." "If I don't need money, I don't work. I'm going to spend time with my family and friends, and I'm going to travel and read and listen to music and try to learn a little bit more about how to be a human being, as opposed to learning how to be somebody else." "It is my life: Food, sleep, my children and sex... with women." "It's not that I just don't like being interviewed, I don't have a problem sitting and talking. I'm just not comfortable talking about myself. It's a dilemma I'm a bad interview, I don't take pride in it and I don't like the spotlight." "Let me tell you one thing. I hate having my picture taken. I hate it." - 2003 "Movies about sexual taboos don't make me uncomfortable. I guess there are certain subjects that I like that maybe other actors don't." - About "Secretary", 2002 "My father was an English teacher and he taught literature and poetry, and my parents would read aloud and my grandparents read aloud. My grandfather would write stories and we would make up little plays to read and perform during the holidays. There was always a tremendous amount of humor in all the households I spent time in." "My only legacy is that I would hope I can raise my sons to be fair, decent and humane. That doesn't have much to do with jumping around in front of a camera." - 1995 "The first perk of theatre is the girls." "The more extreme it is, the more it pulls you out of your pedestrian life. I always think it's more fun to do something fantastic than something highly realistic." "The quarterback in the locker room with a bunch of guys. Football is played in the afternoon, you need a shower afterward. Come on, that doesn't get you laid. If you want to be with girls, go to the theater." "There's a lot of baggage that goes along with being recognized. But the things that really matter to you are satisfaction in your work. Moving forward. Trying to get better. They allow you to take control of you life and make the decisions about what works for you and what doesn't. It doesn't work for me to go to events and be photographed and dress up and talk business and schmooze, so I don't do it." "There's nothing wrong with some embarrasment," he says. "Go make an ass of myself. I don't want to fall on my face, but you fall on your face every day." His theory of acting? "Let it explode. It's not sacred." "To lie in bed. I mean, you can't beat that." "The problem with interviews is that our agendas are completely at odds here," he says. "Your agenda is to find out something about me as a person, which completely conflicts with my agenda to reveal as little as possible." "The thing I envy most about women is their ability to have one orgasm right after another." "When you are in love, you can't control it. It's when you can't take charge of what you feel, when you are completely powerless in the face of the emotion. When it happens, it happens in spite of you." "Yes, I like to cook. As long as I have a good sous chef, I like to cook. I don't like to go into the kitchen all by myself." "You can only f*** in so many ways you know. If I'm able to find a film that plays with some of that, then I like it. I'm game, always game." "You know, that’d make a really crap title for a pop song." - About 'Crash' "You know, when you choose to make your living as an actor, it's all fine and good to look at it as some kind of artistic endeavor. At its best, it is that. But the fact is, most of the actors out there don't earn $3 million a picture and can't afford to take two years off between films and look for the right thing. Most of us are tradesmen. 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. No shame in taking a film because you have always wanted to visit China. I was thinking about this last night as I was driving home. I started to go back through the different films I've done, and the television movies I've done and I started to think about why I chose them at that time. And I realized, every single film I've ever done I've taken because of the money. Every single one. I'm not ashamed to say that." - 1990 "I'm not left wanting because my mother gave so much of herself. I got some of all of it. But at the end of the day, or in the middle of the day, or in the middle of the night, or at the very beginning of the day, whenever it might be, with everything I have from her, with everything she gave me, it doesn't matter - I still miss her." - October 2009 "I think the missing is just fine. It would be very sad and very strange to not. Therefore it seems like the right thing, and a wonderful thing for her - she would want to be missed." - October 2009 "If you aren't getting laid that night after that meal, take a nice bath and masturbate and go to bed and you are gonna be happy. .... I am!" - September 2004
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