James Frain Quotes

#1. I'm a fan of James Frain's work, especially in 'True Blood.' He was so awesome in that show.

Chad Lindberg

#2. Forney in 'Where the Heart Is' has more fans than any other character I've played.

James Frain

#3. I am a little in awe of Jeff Bridges. He's an actor I have admired for many years, and so I didn't know who I was going to get, in the sense that I didn't know what he was going to be like. And so I was pleasantly surprised that he is this kind of laid-back guy.

James Frain

#4. One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better

Larry Niven

#5. I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.

Bill Watterson

#6. The costumes, the light rigs and the effects are seamlessly joined. I'm kind of bummed that I don't get the experience that you get with just watching it cold. By the time we'd seen all the visuals put together, I'd sort of become used to that world. It's still pretty impressive.

James Frain

#7. Sometimes it's fun to be the guy who doesn't know that he's bad, like the character I played in 'True Blood'.

James Frain

#8. I was watching the last season of 'Mad Men,' and they're now so in their characters and they're so comfortable in their characters, and they're doing such good work. That can only happen from doing it over and over, and developing a character over seven years.

James Frain

#9. Shouldn't I join the ranks of philosophers and merely make unsubstantiated claims about the wonders of human consciousness? Shouldn't I stop trying to do some science and keep my head down? Indeed not.

Kevin Warwick

#10. That was one of the things I hadn't really put together. Since the first movie and this movie, the rest of us have been living that revolution, largely engineered by people who were Tron fans. That's pretty deep, man.

James Frain

#11. The acting in 'Downton Abbey' has been consistently excellent across the board.

James Frain

#12. Characters who have some kind of free rein on their darker selves are always fun because they've taken the license off. You just get to fill out all the colors.

James Frain

#13. People say I've had a difficult time in life. I think I've had an exciting time in life.

Iyanla Vanzant

#14. Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Khaled Hosseini

#15. Contrary to the popular notion that only creationism relies on the supernatural, evolutionism must as well, since the probabilities of random formation of life are so tiny as to require a 'miracle' for spontaneous generation tantamount to a theological argument.

Chandra Wickramasinghe

#16. With my guy, every now and then, he puts on a mask and does that, but he isn't that. Most of the time that we see him, he isn't that. Most of the time that we see him, he's fun to hang around with. I think that's unusual, to that extent.

James Frain

#17. 'The Buccaneers' was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.

James Frain

#18. And sometimes it's fun to be the guy who just really enjoys it, like the guy I'm playing now on The Cape. He's more that. He's much more flashy and debonaire and devil may care-ish. He just loves doing bad in the world. That's real fun to do.

James Frain

#19. Working with CGI is more like doing theater where your sort of imagining things. I didn't experience it as restrictive.

James Frain

#20. For all that Tron wanted to be, it ultimately had to be a fun ride for the audience and I was going to be one of the comic characters, and he was really on top of that. He was having such a good time doing it. That's my memory of it. I'd love to work with him again. I think he's great.

James Frain

#21. She was floating as the sea of pleasure took her out upon its rising tide and when she became aware of herself again it was to the feel of Zac behind her, supporting her weight by holding her under her arms. (Barely Restrained, 2011)

Brenda Cothern

#22. The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to tell a story well. The shape or the color of it doesn't matter.

James Frain

#23. He didn't just love Lila, he was in love with her. And he wanted to marry her not to save her, but to save himself.

Jeannie Moon

#24. Evil is a broad church. There are so many different ways to be evil. Sometimes it's fun to be the guy who doesn't know that he's bad, like the character I played in True Blood. He was pretty angsty about it, but he thought he was doing the right thing.

James Frain

#25. 'The Cape' is a really good comic! They invented the whole character, and now they've built a book of 'The Cape' for the show. When I was a kid, I used to love Batman, and I loved Spider-Man. My favorite was this guy called Judge Dredd. I know they made a movie of that in the '90s.

James Frain

#26. Stay hungry. Stay foolish. I've always wished that for myself.

John Morgridge

#27. Bruges is a beautiful medieval city almost untouched by time. If you like jazz, you will be well catered for. If you like chocolate and beer, you will be in heaven.

James Frain

#28. I've got this thing where I think great shows have great credit sequences. I don't know why that is, exactly.

James Frain

#29. The drive for perfectionism is a corrosive waste of time, because nothing is ever beyond criticism. No

Elizabeth Gilbert

#30. Every project has its things to be overcome, but I didn't find that there was anything particularly impossible about what we were doing - it was all quite exciting.

James Frain

#31. Haste is blind and improvident.

Livy

#32. Acting isn't something that I think about very consciously, somehow that just doesn't work for me. I just kind of feel my way into it.

James Frain

#33. I was surprised by how much of it I was in [Tron: Legacy]. I thought the character was just going to register as a smaller figure because most of what I did was with a body double, and then I would do the stand-in with Jeff [Bridges] and he would be just wearing his regular clothes.

James Frain

#34. As movies and TV projects come up, they go out to the agents, and we just go out and audition for them.

James Frain

#35. I don't keep a record of the parts I've played, and I don't compare characters, but maybe I should? I could construct a graphic that grades badness and madness levels? Interesting idea.

James Frain

#36. We were enemies to the core, more so now than ever, but my loss was his. When I suffered, he suffered. It was the way we were built, and even the death that he had indirectly caused couldn't breach that or shatter what lay between us.
Nothing could.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#37. Cable series have more time to focus on characters, and a structure that allows for a development in character as you go along. Network shows have a pressure of time and space that is completely different.

James Frain

#38. I'm saying what a lot of people would want to say but are too embarrassed.

Alanis Morissette

#39. Commercial art is traditionally delivered to a client in a brown-paper bag with an invoice stapled to the outside.

Brad Holland

#40. I give them experiments and they respond with speeches.

Louis Pasteur