Quotes by James Badge Dale - Page 1

Not every conspiracy is a theory.
James Badge Dale / Actor
Conspiracy
Theory
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I like pressure. Pressure is good.
James Badge Dale / Actor
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Kids will tease you for just about anything.
James Badge Dale / Actor
Kids
Tease
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I always like playing the bad guys. They have more fun!
James Badge Dale / Actor
Bad Guys
Fun
Guy
Always Fun Bad
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I've never been someone to count lines, look at it that way.
James Badge Dale / Actor
Lines
Looks
Way
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I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe.
James Badge Dale / Actor
Play
Risk
Safe
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In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.
James Badge Dale / Actor
Actors
Character
Play
Vicariously
Weird Way
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I've done a number of films that no one has ever seen, and that's probably a good thing.
James Badge Dale / Actor
Done
Film
Numbers
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I think pressure when you work is good. It forces you to take risks and to do other things.
James Badge Dale / Actor
Pressure
Risk
Thinking
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I'm a pretty private person, so I'd like to say I'm a good ear and that I keep my mouth shut.
James Badge Dale / Actor
Ears
Mouths
Persons
Ear
Mouth
Private
Private Person
Shut
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I can't go to the hardware store, cut a sheet in half and staple it to the window anymore. It doesn't fly.
James Badge Dale / Actor
Cutting
Half
Hardware
Window
Hardware Store
Sheet
Staple
Store
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My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor.
James Badge Dale / Actor
Actors
Drowning
Television
Network
Network Television
Young Actor
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I was really lucky that, through my 20s, I got to work with some amazing people, and I tried to sit back and watch and learn.
James Badge Dale / Actor
Amazing People
Lucky
People
Watches
Work Amazing People
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I grew up in a crazy, gypsy-like household of actors, dancers and loony Broadway people. It was their way of life, and I didn't know anything else.
James Badge Dale / Actor
Broadway
Crazy
Dancer
People
Life Crazy People
Anything Else
Dancers
Loony
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I've always thought that I'm kind of a cross between a young Bill Clinton and Lyle Lovett. And I just want to say I'm proud of that. Those are two good looking guys.
James Badge Dale / Actor
Clinton
Guy
Two
Want
Good Always Looking
Bill
Bill Clinton
Cross
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The older I get, the more vegetables I eat. I can't stress that more. Eating healthy really affects my work. You not only need to be physically prepared, but mentally and spiritually.
James Badge Dale / Actor
Healthy
Prepared
Stress
Vegetables
Affects
Mentally
Spiritually
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I went through about 40 different hats until we found one that fit. It had to fit me and fit the character, more importantly, and whatever that thing was that we were trying to create with him.
James Badge Dale / Actor
Character
Different
Trying
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I got beat up by the comic-book kids when I was younger! They were cooler than me. Talk about levels of geekdom, I was a couple rungs below the kids who read comic books. Yeah. Not so cool, man.
James Badge Dale / Actor
Kids
Book
Comic
Couple
Levels
Yeah
Cool Man Me
Beat
Below
Cooler
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I've been trying to figure out what moment The Lone Ranger came into our lives. We've always just known about The Lone Ranger. It's common knowledge. I don't ever remember watching the television show.
James Badge Dale / Actor
Common
Television
Trying
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I always like playing the bad guys. They have more fun! I want a director to come up to me and say, "You can't get too weird!" That's a good thing. I loved hearing that. Let me play. I like to play around.
James Badge Dale / Actor
Fun
Guy
Play
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The biggest regret I have about 'Rubicon' is that we didn't end it. Sometimes you do these shows and you don't have the opportunity to get closure. Stories are supposed to have a beginning, middle and an end.
James Badge Dale / Actor
Opportunity
Closure
Middle
Regret
Stories
Beginning
Biggest
Supposed
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You spend all this time, as a child, coming up with these fantasy stories, and here I am, sleeping in a treehouse, in the middle of Canyon de Chelly, shooting a Western. That's a bit of a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
James Badge Dale / Actor
Children
Here I Am
Sleep
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It was dangerous stuff. We were running on top of moving trains. We got to do amazing things. I like doing stuff like that. I enjoy it. But believe me, there were things that were so dangerous that I wasn't touching them.
James Badge Dale / Actor
Running
Believe
Moving
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The hats are tough. I've got a weird head, so believe me, there were a lot of hats. Penny [Rose], our costume designer, who I knew from other jobs said, "Badge, that looks terrible on you. Hold on. No, we can't do that one."
James Badge Dale / Actor
Jobs
Believe
Rose
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As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters. They're never perfect. They're flawed people put in extraordinary circumstances.
James Badge Dale / Actor
Book
Character
Circumstances
Extraordinary
Flawed
Perfect
Audience Member
Live People Never
Extraordinary Circumstances
Member
Vicariously
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I don't know why I just remembered this, and I haven't told anybody this, but we were shooting in Canyon de Chelly and we were so far up the canyon. Once we were up there, we were up there. There was no going back to your trailers.
James Badge Dale / Actor
Canyons
Shooting
Trailers
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Marvel is very secretive, so there was no script. About six months before production, they gave me some pages and it was from a cop movie. And then, six months later, I got a phone call saying, "Do you want to come do this?" [iron Man]
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Men
Iron
Phones
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You want to work with good people. When you're working with good people, it frees you up. There's nothing worse, as an actor, to show up and then feel like you have to protect yourself somehow because you don't feel like you're in good hands.
James Badge Dale / Actor
Actors
Good People
Hands
People
Work Good Yourself
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I grew up in a family of actors. I grew up onstage. The choice for me wasn't, 'Do I want to be an actor or not?' I always felt like that's just ingrained in you, the need to perform. The choice was, 'Do you want to do this professionally or not?
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Actors
Choices
Needs
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I grew up in a family of actors. I grew up onstage. The choice for me wasn't, 'Do I want to be an actor or not?' I always felt like that's just ingrained in you, the need to perform. The choice was, 'Do you want to do this professionally or not?'
James Badge Dale / Actor
Felt
Grew
Family Always Me
Actor
Perform
Choice
Family Me Always
Ingrained
Onstage
Professionally
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Speaking of childhood fantasy, we were doing a Western, but we were also just hanging out. You work, and you ride and ride and ride, and then, for the next two hours, you look for a place to kick out, in this amazing canyon with so much heritage and so much history.
James Badge Dale / Actor
Childhood
Next
Two
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When you're outside in those elements, there's something out there that takes it out of you, so you work real hard. It was physically demanding, but in a very good way. It's not a bad thing. It's a good thing, when things are physically demanding 'cause everyone is rising to the occasion.
James Badge Dale / Actor
Causes
Real
Rising
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The physicality was important to me. Because the film has Shane Black's dialogue, and [Robert] Downey's delivery, and you look at [Jon] Favreau, Don Cheadle and Gwyneth [Paltrow], it is this heightened level with a comedic aspect to it. Everything is grounded in reality, but it plays a little heightened.
James Badge Dale / Actor
Black
Play
Reality
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These stunt guys are good at what they do and they're professional. A smart actor will step back and say, "I'm going to let the professionals do this." Hats off to those guys, man. When you see the credits scroll, look at all those stunt guys and remember all those names 'cause they earned their money on this.
James Badge Dale / Actor
Men
Names
Smart
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As we were negotiating, I didn't have a script. Once the deal is closed, they let you read the script. So, I got the script and was reading it like, "Oh, please be good!," because I'd already signed on the dotted line. And I read it and just went, "Okay, I'm going to be okay. Thank god!" It was a really funny, moving story.
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Moving
Reading
Thank God
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I'm a little bit superstitious, and I think that just comes from playing hockey. I won't avoid the number thirteen. A big one for me, though, is walking under a ladder. I've always felt like that's tempting fate. That's just throwing it right in their face. Check me out. I just walked under a ladder. What are you going to do about it?
James Badge Dale / Actor
Fate
Hockey
Little Bit
Tempting
Thinking
Thirteen
Throwing
Always Face Me
Avoid
Big One
Check
Face Me Always
Number
Ladder
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We're just one cog in this giant machine. You show up and look at all the other cogs like, "Wow, everyone is the best at what they do." You're in really good hands. And that frees you up to play and feel safe, and you can take chances, creatively. You can take risks. I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe.
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Hands
Play
Risk
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en you show up to work and put on your undergarments, throw on your suspenders and your cowboy boots, throw some dirt on you, and then get on your spurs, you start to walk a bit different. When you put on your gun belts, you change again. You go through this whole transformation process. All that stuff changes you. Riding a horse changes the way you walk and your demeanor.
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Cowboy
Gun
Horse
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I found a treehouse. I found this weird tree, out in a field, and someone had put a piece of a fence, way up in a tree. I just went up there and went to sleep for a few hours, in full cowboy regalia. And someone did take a photo. I have a photo of it, somewhere. It brought me back to when I was 12 years old, sitting in a treehouse and imagining that I was in a Western somewhere.
James Badge Dale / Actor
Cowboy
Sleep
Years
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It was dirty and hot, and you're on a horse, all day. It was physical work, but there wasn't one of us - cast or crew - who didn't have a smile on our face. Even when it got real hard and tempers would rise because things would get difficult and the day would get late, we all loved the job and loved doing it. When you finished that day of work, everyone was looking around and going, "Yeah, that was a good day, man."
James Badge Dale / Actor
Jobs
Horse
Real
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