It was a great learning experience to work with James Stewart.
Luke James has this mystique about him that’s not something you can explain; you can only experience it. He’s got a whole D’Angelo feel to him as well.
I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was ‘A Thief in the Village’ by James Berry, and I thought, ‘Is this still the state of publishing?’ Then I thought, ‘Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.’
Sean Connery wasn’t the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn’t the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don’t want to be called the black James Bond.
I never felt that I was a leading-man type in high school. I was always the goofy guy who was getting attention from girls who could make them laugh by doing impersonations of, like, ‘Saturday Night Live’ sketches… I was more James Stewart than James Bond.
Well, you know, News Corp is the only real media global – that has a global presence that’s involved in TV production, in movies, in publishing, in newspapers, digital media, et cetera. So for a company like that to function, clearly it does not depend only on Rupert Murdoch or James Murdoch.
I love NBA. I enjoy it, and I also really love the dominance that LeBron James brings to the court.
You eventually come to the conclusion that there’s only so much you can do with these established characters, and you start wondering who among us will be the one to create the next ‘Superman’ or ‘Batman’ or ‘James Bond’ or next ‘Lone Ranger.’
Apart from my dad, James is the most driven man I’ve ever met. They both have the attitude that there’s plenty of time to sleep when you’re dead.
I never expected to win Young Player or Player of the Season because there is some fantastic competition – Ruben Neves at Wolves, James Maddison at Norwich, and Tom Cairney here at Fulham. To win those two awards is a special feeling.
James Cameron has always been one of my favorite filmmakers. The first ‘Terminator’ is such a phenomenal film. It’s not just that, though – he’s also a very interesting person, James Cameron. It’s fascinating to talk to him about science and engineering.
James Agate, a great critic of the day, advised me that the way to learn your job properly was to learn Shakespeare, so I went to Stratford. It really sorts out the men from the boys.
Everybody had heard the rumours that Real wanted to sign James Rodriguez after the World Cup, and I knew that they were going to sell me to make room for him.
I’ve always thought that there is a great female James Bond movie to be done. I’m not literally calling her Jane Bond, I mean, but a female secret agent.
I had been encouraged a lot by my parents and my sixth grade teacher, James Doyle at Main Street Elementary School. He was an early supporter of my writing ability.
I’ve seen some of James Cameron’s work, and I’ve got to go 3D.
The James Webb Space Telescope was specifically designed to see the first stars and galaxies that were formed in the universe.
Liz Benedict, a teacher of mine at Iowa, is the person who introduced me to James Salter’s work.
James is a traditional guy and wants us to marry in a traditional setting.
The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of traditional Hollywood, the code by which characters like James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda lived, has been lost.
I started to read James Baldwin very early on in my life. At a time, as a young adult in the Sixties, when there were not that many authors in whom I could recognize myself, he was an important guide and mentor to me, as he was to many others. He helped me understand who I was and decipher the world around me.
A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James’s ‘The Portrait of a Lady.’
I’m one of 10 children, and all my brothers call me Jim. And all my sisters… well, they call me something even more affectionate. My mother calls me James, and I do what my mother tells me.
No one will ever accuse James Carville of taking himself seriously.
My background was always more soulful pop. I was named after Ella Fitzgerald, and when I was a kid, I was listening to Lauryn Hill, Etta James, Joss Stone. For me, it was always about the voice.
The main stuff I like is from the late ’60s to the early ’90s. That’s the stuff I love. It’s the James Cameron’s and the Paul Verhoven stuff. I guess when I was younger, ‘Star Wars’ had an influence.
I will forever be a Bond. It’s a small group of men who’ve made this role. Someone said, More men have walked on the moon than have played James Bond.’
I read a quote by James Dean when I was 17; he said, ‘I’d rather starve than do a whole bunch of work that I don’t care about.’ The older I got, the more I understood what he was saying. If I want to do a whole lot of work that I don’t care about, then I would probably be working in a law office somewhere.
I love the fact that James Ivory made films about Britain, made ‘Howards End’ and ‘The Remains of the Day,’ or that Paul Thomas Anderson made ‘Phantom Thread.’ They’re about Britishness, but they’re from an American perspective. And I actually think they’re fantastic in the way that they understand Britishness.
I agree completely with my son James when he says ‘Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge’.
I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time… not just African-American. He singled-handedly revolutionized the political, artistic, and historical discourses about America.
I don’t like James Bond. They made him a super hero, but he is just an agent, a human being. In my movies, secret agents are more realistic, I didn’t want to portray them in the most glowing colours.
I would love to do a western. I would love to play an explorer. That is always something that has really captured my imagination since I was a kid, like James Cook or Magellan or Earnest Shackleton.
Before we really started writing our own songs in the James Gang, we’d play covers, and then, in the middle of them, we’d go for a jam for four or five minutes. At some point, we had six or seven of those sections, and we didn’t need to cover other people’s songs anymore.
James Brown was my favorite, my absolute idol. Every time I played with him was like a music lesson, and I never thought I could be so funky! I mean, a white boy from Canada – a Jew – getting down with his funky bad self!
Every young male actor dreams of being James Bond in an action movie. And that’s their first role. But the truth is, when it comes down to it, that’s not relatable.
It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!
I was raised by my aunt and we bonded over the eight-o-clock movie on TV. We’d watch everything from James Cagney in ‘White Heat’ to Lon Chaney in ‘The Wolf Man’ and every Bogart movie.
I’m touched by the Beatles. I want some of the music I do to reflect that. Here I am. I love Sly Stone and James Brown and Stevie Wonder, and I want my music to reflect some of that. Here I am. I’m touched by Jon Hendricks. I want some of my music to reflect that. And when I write, you’re going to hear it.
Gambhir behaves like he’s a cross between Don Bradman & James Bond.
James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.
One of my first festivals was Oxygen 2006. It had this amazing lineup with the Arctic Monkeys on their first or second album, the Strokes, Kings of Leon, the Magic Numbers and then the Who and James Brown. I waited in the pit for a good eight hours to see James Brown.
Audrey was a princess, so natural, the camera really loved her… James and I kept each other company during all the rejections. We used to meet, have a cup of coffee and went from office to office to get work and never got work.
The first album is the prelude to the full story of Luke James. It establishes me as an artist you can look forward to.
I’ve been to two stadium gigs in my life. One was James Brown and the other was Pink Floyd. They both sounded the same. I couldn’t tell the difference between James Brown and Pink Floyd. I’ve never liked stadiums.
When you’re a young boy, you’re looking at older men for role modelling. Before I loved De Niro, I loved Clint Eastwood; I loved John Wayne. And James Bond.
They’re naughty, all those writers – they mess around with people. I know James Gandolfini got a bit fed up on ‘The Sopranos’: if he said anything in front of a writer, told them a story from his life, it could make its way into the script.
Whether we’re looking at the burial box of St. James, a fragment of the True Cross, the Shroud of Turin, or some bones supposedly belonging to John the Baptist, there is always excitement and distrust, faith and doubt.
James Remar is a student of life.
I always approach every play based on the cast. When Denzel and I did ‘Fences,’ I didn’t go to rehearsals and say, ‘OK, James Earl Jones did a wonderful job in ’87. Let me see if you can come close to James Earl Jones.’
Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn’t know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.
I often thought that if I had been working with Mark James at American Studios, I would have had a pop hit before I ever moved out of Memphis. But that didn’t happen.
