James Woods
James Woods
James Howard Woodsis an American actor and producer. He is often known for villainous roles, and appeared in a variety of films, including The Onion Field, Videodrome, Once Upon a Time in America, Best Seller, Chaplin, Casino, Nixon, Hercules, Vampires, Straw Dogsand White House Down. On television, he is known for portraying the titular protagonist of Shark...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth18 April 1947
CityVernal, UT
CountryUnited States of America
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.
Achieving success as an actor has not been easy for me. My biggest, probably most irrational complaint has been that I've had to work harder for what I've gotten. I've seen other people with nepotism or wealth or cheesy good looks on their side who've had.
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.
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 job.
The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols.
I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.
...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 and they wouldn't have worried about the consequences because there would not have been any because the remaining terrorist states would have said 'we get the message.'
I think the iPhone was as significant an invention as the Gutenburg press, in terms of the future of humanity.
It should have been done. It's our pure oversight. It should have been told to them as soon as we knew.
I think that the economy, and the political system, has literally become such a disaster I don't know if it's possible to save it.
Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.
I think the great power of Bette Davis was she always knew who she was. She had an obligation to herself and her audience. When you think of what she was compelled to do, the power she put on the screen, the fact that she took upon herself a much greater task...
The bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny.
It is okay to fall, but not okay to stay on the ground.