James Van Der Beek
James Van Der Beek
James David Van Der Beekis an American actor. He rose to fame beginning in 1998 for his portrayal of Dawson Leery in the WB series Dawson's Creek and for portraying a fictionalized version of himself on the ABC sitcom Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23. He also starred in CSI: Cyber as FBI Special Agent Elijah Mundo...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth8 March 1977
CityCheshire, CT
CountryUnited States of America
You are incredibly fortunate whatever success falls on you, which is what happened with me,
I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.
I've always been a clown trapped in a leading man's body.
You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time.
When you're the lead of a series, things happen around you, and you react to them.
Being the lead of the show and working a lot of hours - all good stuff, a tremendous education, incredible opportunity, it changed my life - it was a marathon, and by the end of it I was pretty beat.
I've never really had a problem with the imagination level of an audience. They're always smarter and savvier than any studio exec will give them credit for.
I've only dyed my hair blond once, after 'Varsity Blues.'
I'm kind of shocked that it's taken Hollywood so long to realize that so many great movie talents can come out of television. One of the reasons they do is that on TV you don't have the luxury of a film's big budget, and people have to compensate with creativity.
The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy.
I remember one day during my freshman year of high school, when as usual I was obsessively listening to a cast recording: it may have been 'Jesus Christ Superstar.' And I remember sitting there, totally absorbed, saying to myself, 'I can do this.'
I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan
Don't ever put anything past kids. They will surprise you in the best ways.
I think anybody with an insecurity, which is everyone, appreciates the fact that it's much easier to be a predator than it is to be prey.