Quotes by James Woods

• Do you think I want to be the one lone voice against the Hollywood liberal establishment? It's not going to do me any good.
• I was able to lean on people for favors and things to help out because their budget was so low. It was half of what John Travolta's perk package is on a film. Our whole budget was half of what his staff makes on a film.
• I'm a pretty quiet guy, but if people want to think of me as a lady killer, I guess that's good.
• I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.
• 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.
• Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.
• My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.
• No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.
• 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.
• The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.
• The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.
• We work in an environment where your options are to do, you know, Batman 10, so when you get to do a movie that's a really great film like this, people really step up to the plate and enjoy it.
• Celebrity - I don't even know what that means. Obviously it's the same basic word as celebration, but I don't know what's being celebrated.
• Success is just failure turned inside out, laughing all the way to its next breakthrough!