Collected Meditations
Showing 35 quotesAt a young age, acting was so inspiring and exciting, because to me it was play - make-believe, pretend.— James Van Der Beek
When you're the lead of a series, things happen around you, and you react to them.— James Van Der Beek
I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan. That's why it's my favorite city. You can do what you want without attracting a crowd of curious onlookers.— James Van Der Beek
Being the lead of the show and working a lot of hours - all good stuff, a tremendous education, incredible opportunity, it changed my life - it was a marathon, and by the end of it I was pretty beat.— James Van Der Beek
I've never really had a problem with the imagination level of an audience. They're always smarter and savvier than any studio exec will give them credit for.— James Van Der Beek
You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time.— James Van Der Beek
I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.— James Van Der Beek
I remember one day during my freshman year of high school, when as usual I was obsessively listening to a cast recording: it may have been 'Jesus Christ Superstar.' And I remember sitting there, totally absorbed, saying to myself, 'I can do this.'— James Van Der Beek
I think anybody with an insecurity, which is everyone, appreciates the fact that it's much easier to be a predator than it is to be prey.— James Van Der Beek
I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan.— James Van Der Beek
A lot of movies you do because they're fun, they make people forget about their day.— James Van Der Beek
You can't really pretend something is rosier than it is and expect people to buy it.— James Van Der Beek