39 Quotes by James Badge Dale

I think pressure when you work is good. It forces you to take risks and to do other things.

I want to show up to work and take risks. I don’t ever want to play it safe.

I like pressure. Pressure is good.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.