James Woods Quotes (29 Quotes)

Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.

Golf takes me out of the crap of a sick world. Golfers are genuinely courteous in a discourteous world. Show me a guest on The Jerry Springer Show who's a golfer.

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.

I'm a pretty quiet guy, but if people want to think of me as a lady killer, I guess that's good.

I've been in the business 26 years, and I've never seen it get this bad.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

There was nothing about it that was as I expected, nothing was predictable, ... Every time I thought they were going one way, they went another.

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.

All the racial jokes and so on are so over-the-top that's the only way they can work. If they weren't, then you'd really have a problem, ... Because they're so ridiculous and over-the-top and because the character's so ridiculous, then actually it gets that kind of gasping, screaming laughter from everybody, which is good -- or we haven't had any problems, nobody's felt hurt, thank God.

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.

I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.

I would give you seven to one odds that this is going to be a slash piece, but that's OK. I'm willing to take the heat.

I think that we've been up until now a rather indulgent nation, and now I think we're starting to become more serious adults.

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.

Serving as a school bus driver is a very rewarding job. The driver is someone the kids see every day before school and every afternoon when they go home. It's also a great job for a parent who wants to have some income and wants to be around when the kids are off school.

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.

Hold on a second, I got a hand here... you don't mind if I play while we talk It's part of the charm of this entire event.

I really just don't want to act any more. People say why and I said, 'Have you been to the movies lately' They're just horrible. They're just so bad. And I was sent this script and I said to the agent at the time, 'What's the deal' He said, 'Well, they've offered it to you.' I said, 'Yes The answer is yes' (Laughs) Are you kidding This thing is hilarious. It just is so right on target, it's so not politically correct. And then I heard Evan was going to be in it The absolute most talented actress I've worked with in a decade. Really, honestly You can't imagine how talented she is.

I read this script, it was like taking a trip through the other side of hell.

I hate to say that, but name an actor, and I'll tell you who they're related to, ... It's unbelievable So I came out here, this sort of skinny geeky kid, and it just took forever. I didn't get my first sort of break until I was 30.

It seems a well-run festival. The people are great, and San Diego is a very welcoming town. I'm having a great time.

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.

Two of our biggest movie stars are Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz, and they smile onscreen. Something people have forgotten about doing for 30 years.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.

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?