Top 688 James Quotes

I really do love bluesy-jazzy music, so I love Etta James, B.B. King and Billie Holiday. I love that they have soul in their voices – I think that’s something important is having.

I’ve been lucky enough to kiss three James Bonds on screen: Pierce Brosnan, George Lazenby and Daniel Craig.

I’d love to play in, like, a ‘Lord of the Rings,’ or something like that, or a James Bond or, you know, just something like with action, shooting.

I’d studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.

Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in ‘Batman’; Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy.

In Denver, all we really had was pop radio, so I grew up on all that late ’70s pop stuff – Billy Joel, James Taylor, Lionel Richie, Elton John, Steve Miller and Toto. Great love songs and really hooky and melodic music – I have all of that stuff in my heart.

There’s been a lot come through at Everton: Wayne Rooney, obviously, and lately, Victor Anichebe has made it, James Vaughan, and the likes of myself.

I wouldn’t want to be a James Bond.

The first memory I have was my sisters dancing to the radio when they played records by Benny Goodman and Harry James and of the sort. But the record that got me was a record by Derek Sampson, who was a young guy, called ‘Boogie Express,’ and it was boogie-woogie. Really, it was on fire, and that got me.

Peter Jennings was the James Bond of evening news, and I always wanted to be that. His evening news was really a conversation with America, and I hope that’s something I can achieve.

There’s a blockbuster side to Knopf, whether it’s P. D. James or John le Carre or our best-selling books. We try to sell our writers as aggressively as those houses regarded as commercial with a capital C.

When I was a young boy I wanted to play for Newcastle United, I wanted to wear the number nine shirt and I wanted to score goals at St James’ Park. I’ve lived my dream and I realise how lucky I’ve been to have done that.

Lauren Bacall, James Garner, and Jack Lemmon – they’re all gone now, but I was so impressed by them.

When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O’Connor, James Agee, and – do we dare breathe the name – William Faulkner.

I could never be James Bond.

It wasn’t until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn’t have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy.

The way James Franco goes to new projects, he does it the way an artist should, which is with a question mark. Like, will this work?

Vladimir Nabokov on ‘Bleak House’ or Henry James on ‘The House of the Seven Gables’ prove that reading can be an exciting subject in itself, full of passionate encounters, contradictory judgments, striking discoveries, and unexpected reversals.

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

I started playing with this band, the Polyester Players. It was my introduction into funk. So I went and got a James Brown record. ‘Black Caesar’ is a film score, but it’s so dope.

‘The Book of Love’ is the kind of James L. Brooks mainstream movie that the majors are ignoring.

I heard Skip James, and it pierced me. It felt like punk rock to me, real and raw. It was just one guitar, so simple yet so much expression. I wanted to feel and express like that, to take the shortest path to get to an emotion.

We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.

If California ever developed a vineyard rating system, Saxum’s James Berry Vineyard would be classified as one of the best.

I encourage everyone to read James Baldwin and Malcom X and Aldous Huxley. To read Primo Levi. To read ‘Silent Spring.’ To read Toni Morrison. To read Zora Neale Hurston.

I wouldn’t call myself ‘into the DJ scene.’ I have friends who are DJs, like James Murphy. I was really into the DJ scene at his wedding. But generally, I’m not at the clubs. I’ve never been to a rave.

I can’t rave enough about Eloisa James. I’m simply in awe of her talent.

It’s always an interesting experience with the ‘Saw’ films, when a sequel comes out that I didn’t have anything to do with, creatively, because here’s this idea, this story, and this character that I created for James Wan, but now it doesn’t need me anymore.

Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitution, were oblivious, careless, or otherwise unaware of the words they chose for the document and its Bill of Rights.

The stoic drama ‘A Somewhat Gentle Man’ is photographed in a palate of steel gray tones that match Stellan Skarsgard’s complexion. It’s a low-blood-pressure version of the kind of thing James M. Cain used to do in his sleep, and its filmmaking accomplishment is as minimalist as its narrative ambition is minimal.

With Eric Rohmer – as with Mozart, Austen, James, and Proust – we need to remember that art is seldom about life, or not quite about life. Art is about discovery and design and reasoning with chaos.

I look to James Franco with complete admiration. He makes interesting choices. Whether right or wrong, that is up to someone else to decide, but I think what he does is brilliant.

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.

I always loved when James Stewart did roles that were not so dialogue-based, like ‘Vertigo.’

I’m a recovering jersey wearer who can’t bear to get rid of the blaze-orange Knicks warmup top that makes me look like James Carville on a highway repair crew.

There’s only so long you can play the silent type standing in the background. ‘GoldenEye’ was good for that. I was the villain: James Bond was doing all the heavy lifting. I liked that.

I liked the idea of exposing the beams in collaborative novel. And there are many – especially in the crime world – there are many people working together: James Patterson and his stable of sub authors; and then there are like Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman and Jason Starr.

I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.

The English are good at bad guys – the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.

At around 16, I became obsessed with James Joyces A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man. I was absorbed by the sense of someone trying to break out of an institution but then became interested in Joyces experimental way of writing.

I most want to be remembered for being as great a mother to James and Lennon as my mum was to me and my brother Jamie.

I just think Brian d’Arcy James is a dream come true. I’ve known of him ever since I saw him in ‘Titanic,’ and I fell crazy in love with him at that moment.

James Woods is great. I actually did a movie with James Woods in 2000: ‘John Q.’

We had all these famous writers in Sweden and from all over the world home at dinner. I wanted to be a writer, and I wanted to be a highbrow writer as my father. He never, ever read anything like crime novels. He wrote biographies of Dante, James Joyce, August Strindberg and Joseph Conrad.

The great thing about Santa Monica civic auditorium was it was a place you could ride your bike to. In this case, my dad dropped me and my friends off, and we’d go see Ronnie James Dio or Jean-Luc Ponty or Weather Report or the Pretenders.

Nan Gorman was born in Memphis, Tenn., on St. Patrick’s Day. She moved to Hazard in 1929 when her father, James Hagan, a recent medical school graduate and aspiring surgeon, went to work there.

I don’t regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.

There have been so many ‘James Bond’ movies, ‘Spiderman’ films, ‘Mission Impossible’ series, etc. Is there any difference in the basic story? Yet, each time there’s a release, people are excited.

Some people might say I’m old at 28, but I look at someone like James Milner. He’s 32 and playing like he is 25 or something.

In the days of Gary Cooper, James Stewart etc, film stars personified the better aspects of human nature.

The first artist that did it for me with just production was James Blake… I was just blown away… I feel like James Blake kind of was the one that introduced me into that world.

The only dangerous scene is when James Cromwell put a stake in my chest. But other than that, it turned out to be quite a punch. I didn’t think much of it.

We need everybody to contribute as one and do what we’ve got to do to win. Football is not an individual game. In basketball, LeBron James can take over a game by himself.

I keep up with James Kochalka’s online strip, and if I see a link somewhere or someone tells me about something, I’ll look at it, but I don’t usually keep up with any sites other than the ‘American Elf.’ I always have this feeling that there’s not enough space in the screen, like everything’s always getting cut off.