Top 22 James Van Der Beek Quotes

I’ve always been a clown trapped in a leading man‘s body.

At a young age, acting was so inspiring and exciting, because to me it was play – make-believe, pretend.

I’ve only dyed my hair blond once, after ‘Varsity Blues.’

I believe every religion captures a piece of the truth.

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you’re going to do.

I was dyslexic, so math and formulas were not necessarily my strong suit.

A lot of movies you do because they’re fun, they make people forget about their day.

The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy.

You know, I’m not big on conspiracy theory. It does really kind of get my blood going when I find out there really are conspiracies that actually happened.

When you’re the lead of a series, things happen around you, and you react to them.

I’m kind of shocked that it’s taken Hollywood so long to realize that so many great movie talents can come out of television. One of the reasons they do is that on TV you don’t have the luxury of a film‘s big budget, and people have to compensate with creativity.

You are incredibly fortunate whatever success falls on you, which is what happened with me.

You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there’s another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time.

It’s a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want.

I’m not about to talk about what’s romantic in my life – I figure if you talk about it once, then that’s an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further. So, I just keep my private life to myself.

In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.

Being the lead of the show and working a lot of hours – all good stuff, a tremendous education, incredible opportunity, it changed my life – it was a marathon, and by the end of it I was pretty beat.

I’ve never really had a problem with the imagination level of an audience. They’re always smarter and savvier than any studio exec will give them credit for.

I’m pretty much your average, energy-saving-light-bulbs-recycling citizen.

I never wear white or black socks.

Ultimately, I’d love to be able to work in film.

You can’t really pretend something is rosier than it is and expect people to buy it.