Top 66 James Woods Quotes
#1. James Woods is great. I actually did a movie with James Woods in 2000: 'John Q.'
Kevin Connolly
#2. I met Evan Rachel Wood, James Woods, Kevin Bacon at Sundance. Steve Buscemi is pretty laid-back. I met Judy Greer in Vegas, and she was cool.
Mark Zupan
#3. If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else.
Dana Delany
#4. My parents loved each other. I was raised in a house of total love and respect. My dad worked very hard and my mother was incredibly devoted to him. I can unequivocally, without any peradventure of doubt, tell you that I was raised with the kind of love that we only dream of.
James Woods
#5. There's a balance and I feel very, very strong and very, very fit at the moment. There's no - touch wood - niggles at the moment, there's nothing that's twinging or nothing that's too painful. Apart from a bit of chafing from the wetsuit!
Greg James
#6. The places of quiet are going away, the churches, the woods, the libraries. And it is only in silence we can hear the voice inside of us which gives us true peace.
James Rozoff
#7. The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished, and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough.
James G. Frazer
#8. 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.
James Woods
#9. The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.
James Woods
#10. The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.
James Woods
#11. Whatever it took to get elected president of the United States, I don't think being a complete and utter moron is one of those predicates.
James Woods
#12. I am one of those guys who could do the most emotional scene and crack a joke instantly. I'm lucky. I'm just like an idiot savant. I have one enormously enjoyable, pleasurable - for me - talent, which is being able to act.
James Woods
#14. The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.
James Woods
#16. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang the best.
John James Audubon
#17. 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.
James Woods
#18. I've had wonderfully lucrative offers to do another network series. I could do that again and have a very luscious retirement.
James Woods
#19. Drip, drip, the rain comes falling, Rain in the woods, rain on the sea; Even the little waves, beaten, come crawling As if to find shelter here with me.
James Herbert
#20. 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.
James Woods
#21. Here's what I believe a soul is - at least this, I believe it's at least this. I believe that every kindness that we create in our lives, if it came because we were affected by a person we loved and lost, that person lives through that kindness. That's what a soul is.
James Woods
#22. If General Motors can't survive and run their business like a business, let them go under.
James Woods
#23. 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 ...
James Woods
#24. 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.
James Woods
#25. 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.
James Woods
#26. 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.
James Woods
#27. Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
William James
#28. When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that everyone in our school was a virgin.
James Woods
#29. Give Bush 10 minutes before you hammer him. I think he's going to surprise people. He sounds simple and uncomplicated, but maybe that's what we need now. He's not as stupid as everyone thinks. I like the guy.
James Woods
#30. I'm a pretty quiet guy, but if people want to think of me as a lady killer, I guess that's good.
James Woods
#31. Without a doubt, if I had it to do all over again, I would do whatever it takes to be a one-person studio. You need to learn how to write so you can control the material. If you own the material, you can do it all.
James Woods
#32. Because of who I am, when I sit at a poker table, I meet people who engage me in conversation, not only about poker, but also about the movie business and about the world of celebrities.
James Woods
#33. If I say I'm the best actor for the part, I mean it and I'm not kidding.
James Woods
#34. 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.
James Woods
#35. Golfers are genuinely courteous in a discourteous world. Show me a guest on The Jerry Springer Show who's a golfer.
James Woods
#36. I think the iPhone was as significant an invention as the Gutenburg press, in terms of the future of humanity.
James Woods
#37. Aficionado my ass ... I just love to smoke cigars
James Woods
#38. 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?
James Woods
#39. The only reason people lock their car doors when Obama walks by is they are afraid he'll tax them to death ...
James Woods
#40. It is okay to fall, but not okay to stay on the ground.
James Woods
#41. I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.
James Woods
#42. The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols.
James Woods
#43. Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.
James Woods
#44. If you strive for the moon, maybe you'll get over the fence.
James Woods
#45. My biggest problem in live games is that I love the game so much and I don't think I ever met a poker player I didn't fundamentally like - even if they're screaming and they're acting like real jerks.
James Woods
#46. Just curious. Does the president of the United States have any advice for other teenage boys in America? Wounded warriors, for example ...
James Woods
#47. The smartest move I ever made in showbusiness was to start off looking like the kind of wreck I would end up as. I was already aged in the wood.
Clive James
#48. The bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny.
James Woods
#49. Saints don't heed warnings because they consider them irrelevant. Fools don't heed them because they think the lightning dancing across the sky, the thunder rolling through the woods, are only there to enhance their lives in some mysterious way.
James Lee Burke
#50. 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.
James Woods
#51. I always have a rule that acting is acting and truth is truth and you just go out there and you do it. But what happens in each medium is that you have other responsibilities. The acting remains the same, but each medium dictates assuming other halves to make the acting work.
James Woods
#52. 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.
James Woods
#53. Can't live in a crazy forest that's trying to kill you without a top-of-the-line stabbing stick.
James Tynion IV
#54. Simple logic tells you that if somebody wants you dead you have one course of action: To get them deader sooner.
James Woods
#55. To my mind, 'Dear Brutus' stands halfway between Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's 'Into the Woods'. Like them, it is a play about enchantment and disillusion, dreams and reality.
Michael Dirda
#56. If someone is not tech savvy, I have no time for them. I've always been a big believer in looking forward.
James Woods
#57. The woods are but the ears of the Almighty, the air is his breath, and the light of the sun is little more than a glance of his eye.
James Fenimore Cooper
#58. I look back on my life and have to face the fact that I have been narcissistic and selfish.
James Woods
#59. 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.
James Woods
#60. Puberty flicked a switch inside of them and dreams were replaced by hormones and college prep courses and varsity sports while I continued to look for faeries in the woods behind my house.
Brian James
#61. The listeners got some such insights into their past lives, as one gets into the darker parts of the woods, when a stray gleam of sunshine finds its way down to the roots of the trees.
James F. Cooper
#62. Thomas was baffled by this girl - first the connection he'd felt to her from the very beginning, then the mind-speaking, now this. "Everything about you is weird. You know that, right?"
"Judging by your little hiding spot, I'd say you're not so normal yourself. Like living in the woods, do ya?
James Dashner
#63. I think it's safe to say people are going to be interested in Kim Kardashian's love choices for the next 30 years. But they can take a minute to think about the new robotic arm that could replace the one they lost to cancer. Then they can keep thinking about Kim Kardashian.
James Woods
#64. 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.
James Woods
#65. My second ex-wife was really kind of like a ship passing in the night. Only she turned out to be the Exxon Valdez.
James Woods
#66. I wasn't a babe in the woods. I'd watched a lot of stars, from James Dean to Brando, and I'd seen everybody alive work at MGM. I had a certain old-timer's quality, even though I was young and new, and drew on what I believed before I made it.
Jack Nicholson
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