James Woods Quotes

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

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• We work in an environment where your options are to do, you know, Batman 10, so when you get to do a movie that’s a really great film like this, people really step up to the plate and enjoy it.

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• The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they’ll take it.

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• The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

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• Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one’s self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

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• So you can say whatever you want and quote me however you want about politics and make the next payday, and that’s fine because I’m making that deal with you, but just mention the movie along the way, OK?

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• No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they’re amazingly well informed.

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• My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn’t walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.

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• Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.

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• I’m famous for being nicer to my fans than anyone on the face of the Earth because I figure a) They pay my salary, and b) It’s probably like a big moment in your life to meet somebody so I would say, just come on up.

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

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• I’m a pretty quiet guy, but if people want to think of me as a lady killer, I guess that’s good.

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• I was able to lean on people for favors and things to help out because their budget was so low. It was half of what John Travolta’s perk package is on a film. Our whole budget was half of what his staff makes on a film.

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• Do you think I want to be the one lone voice against the Hollywood liberal establishment? It’s not going to do me any good.

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• Celebrity – I don’t even know what that means. Obviously it’s the same basic word as celebration, but I don’t know what’s being celebrated.

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Birth:	18th April, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Producer

About

James Howard Woods was born in Vernal, Utah, USA. He is an American actor and producer. His role in several films include: The Way We Were, The Onion Field(Nominated- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor), Videodrome, Once Upon a Time in America, Salvador(Nominated- Academy Award for Best Actor, Won- Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead), Best Seller, Cop(Also producer), Chaplin, Casino, Nixon, Ghosts of Mississippi(Nominated- Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor), Vampires(Won- Saturn Award for Best Actor), Another Day in Paradise(also producer), and White House Down. His role in television include: The Disappearance of Aimee(TV film), Holocaust(miniseries), Badge of the Assassin(TV film), In Love and War(TV film), Citizen Cohn(TV film), Hercules(TV series, Won- Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program), Promise(TV film, Won- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Won- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor), Dirty Pictures(TV film, Won- Satellite Award for Best Actor), and Shark(TV series, Nominated- Satellite Award for Best Actor), Mary and Martha(TV film), and Ray Donovan(TV series).

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