James Wood Quotes

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 Wood

Business, Movie, Meet

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 Wood

Work, Truth, Same

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 Wood

Emotional, Idiot, Able

I just love poker players.
James Wood

Love, Players, Poker

I look back on my life and have to face the fact that I have been narcissistic and selfish.
James Wood

Life, Selfish, Fact

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 Wood

Love, Lost, Thinking

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 Wood

Political, Become, Possible

I think the iPhone was as significant an invention as the Gutenburg press, in terms of the future of humanity.
James Wood

Future, Humanity, Press

I was really bright as a kid and tested well, and it was clear that I was going to get scholarships to any schools I wanted. My dad always said I could be an engineer; at that time it was the elite of society: steady job, working in science, which was then the answer to every problem we had. It was kind of a mandate. Kind of a dream he had for me.
James Wood

Time, Society, Science

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 Wood

Life, Famous, Moment

I've had wonderfully lucrative offers to do another network series. I could do that again and have a very luscious retirement.
James Wood

Another, Again, Series

If General Motors can't survive and run their business like a business, let them go under.
James Wood

Business, Run, General

If I say I'm the best actor for the part, I mean it and I'm not kidding.
James Wood

Best, Mean, Actor

If someone is not tech savvy, I have no time for them. I've always been a big believer in looking forward.
James Wood

Time, Forward, Someone

If you strive for the moon, maybe you'll get over the fence.
James Wood

Moon, Maybe, Strive

It's a great battle, and it really is a battle, and there are people from all walks of life, you know, never judge anybody at the table: A man can be the greatest poker player and he might know all the numbers, but he might get beaten by a really savvy kid who works in a grocery store; and that's what's so great about this game.
James Wood

Life, Great, Judge

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 Wood

Love, Live, Game

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 Wood

Love, Respect, Dad

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 Wood

Evil, Self, Sometimes

The bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny.
James Wood

Control, Destiny, Line

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 Wood

Women, Great, Men

The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols.
James Wood

Through, Whole, Gone

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 Wood

Doubt, Control, Learn

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Type: Actor

Born: 1947

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