39 Quotes by James Badge Dale

My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn’t make it work. I was drowning as an actor.

I can’t go to the hardware store, cut a sheet in half and staple it to the window anymore. It doesn’t fly.

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.

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.

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.

I always like playing the bad guys. They have more fun!

I’ve done a number of films that no one has ever seen, and that’s probably a good thing.

I’m a pretty private person, so I’d like to say I’m a good ear and that I keep my mouth shut.

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.