James Spader

James: (speaking after the end of Boston Legal) Before I did the show, I was working in films and on a film I've always been really lazy as an actor and really much preferred to do other things and... don't ask me what! I used to do a film and then I would take off a period of time. Generally, a film would take, you know, two to three to four months to shoot and I would then take off two to three to four months afterwards to do other things and actually spend time with the family. Well, what the hell do you do if you have been doing a TV show for six years? I mean, the TV show has ended, I can't take six years out!

James: I've had a lazy career. Sometimes one film a year, sometimes none. I'm walking around in the street and doing this other thing, living, that I'm much more interested in. I just do some acting on the side.

James: I played cops and robbers and pirates and all the rest when I was a kid, but I didn't want to grow up and be an actor and play cops and robbers and pirates. I wanted to grow up and be that, be cops and robbers and pirates.