James Quotes

We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.

And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.

If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else.

James was my given name, but I was a junior; so I was Jamie as a kid.

When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

There's one major difference between James Bond and me! He is able to sort out problems!

Well, you know, News Corp is the only real media global - that has a global presence that's involved in TV production, in movies, in publishing, in newspapers, digital media, et cetera. So for a company like that to function, clearly it does not depend only on Rupert Murdoch or James Murdoch.

The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that government had no business interfering with the way we worship God.

I'm on a team with LeBron James and Chris Bosh, and they both dress well. It gets competitive. If I don't bring my A game, they're going to outshine me.

It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good.

Mel Gibson would not be a good James Bond.

I have Tourettes and Aspergers, but Tourrets and Aspergers don't have me. You know, I'm doing what I can to suppress it and I don't let it take advantage of me. It's not who I am. You know, I'm James Durbin. Like I said in the beginning, I am here to show America who I am, and it is what it is.

My wife was a Bond girl, in Diamonds Are Forever, so I play James Bond in real life every day.

Doing this James Brown thing for the last couple of days has been ideal. But it's a different kind of fun.

Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me and the way I felt. So I started writing my own stuff.

James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.

I created Batman about 10 years before Ian Fleming created James Bond.

James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good.

I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.

Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive.

Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident.

A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.

Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.

Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.