James Quotes

James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.

James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.

There was no actual person who was James Bond, despite all the books.

James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect.

Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.

As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.

Hope E.L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.

You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.

I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper.

This summer, I'll be bringing out a mystery that involves a young lawyer and a court scene the likes of which I don't think you've ever seen. Hollywood said this is James Patterson meets John Grisham.

James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.

I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people.

James Stewart was so kind and considerate and had such personal integrity.

John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.

I'm just like James Stewart, because I never studied to be an actor.

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them.

And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.

My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut.

To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.

I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.

James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally.

In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.

I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.

In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.

The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the 'Family Values' issues that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media.

I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.

But that kind of falls in line; when you think about it, James Brown was a funk minimalist. All of those parts create a sum that's larger than than the individual parts.

In terms of men I fancy, I think the actor James Franco is gorgeous. But I find it odd to be described as a sex symbol myself.

Mel Gibson would not be a good James Bond.