James Spader's BIO His role as Steff in 'Pretty in Pink' (1986)
February 7, 1960 (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
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  • “I enjoy most that Alan seems to be happiest the stranger it can be. I don't think it ever can be strange enough for him.”
  • “He's a very strange guy,”
  • “I'd like to thank the academy and I'd like to thank my mother and I'd like to thank my mother again, because I forgot to thank her last year.”
  • “If I don't need the money, I don't work.”
  • “Celebrity.”
  • “When I moved there, I completely believed that anything was possible. I believed I could become part of the fabric of the city, and not by portraying someone, but truly.”
  • “One of the things I like most about doing a television series is that I really don't have any idea what is going to happen, ... I love that.”
  • “[Kelley] said, 'You know how you will have a friend sometimes who you are very compelled by and who you may love dearly, but they are very difficult to be friends with,'”
  • “felt badly about it in the end.”
  • “The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism in them, ... I think [Shore] intends to do the right thing, but his view of the world is very different so, to get to the right place, he sometimes takes a path that goes through a very dark forest.”
  • “I didn't really know much about the character at the time,”
  • “It is my life,”
  • “I had an idea of what David Kelley wanted the character to do, ... He really wanted this very sort of volatile force at this well-established firm on 'The Practice' ... to stir things up.”