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
Ultimately, I'd love to be able to work in film.
I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once - then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further
It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want
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.
You get a script and you love it. You find a director that you trust, and it becomes all about how do I commit to this as fully as possible? And the last thing you can afford to have in your mind is what are other people going to think of this?
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.
A lot of movies you do because they're fun, they make people forget about their day.
I'm pretty much your average, energy-saving-light-bulbs-recycling citizen.
The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do.
When you're the lead of a series, things happen around you, and you react to them.
Ok, this is the most unfun threesome I have ever been a part of. Nobody's having sex and someone is yelling. I'm out of here.
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.