39 Quotes by James Badge Dale

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.

I’ve never been someone to count lines, look at it that way.

Kids will tease you for just about anything.

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.

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.

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.

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

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.

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.