I always show up to work and give it everything, and some things turn out better than others – and some things you can expect that it will come out better than others. – James Van Der Beek
The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy. – James Van Der Beek
You are incredibly fortunate whatever success falls on you, which is what happened with me. – James Van Der Beek
The more you make fun of yourself and don’t try to go for any kind of respect, the more people seem to respect you. – James Van Der Beek
I think anybody with an insecurity, which is everyone, appreciates the fact that it’s much easier to be a predator than it is to be prey. – James Van Der Beek
I’ve been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there’s a housing development whose name was Landfall. – James Van Der Beek
In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there. – James Van Der Beek
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. – James Van Der Beek
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. – James Van Der Beek
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. – James Van Der Beek
You buy a house and you get it checked out and you feel like you’ve kind of made your mark here in some way. And then an act of God just comes up the coast and has the potential to just completely wipe it clean. Weather like that is certainly humbling. – James Van Der Beek
When you’re the lead of a series, things happen around you, and you react to them. – James Van Der Beek
A lot of movies you do because they’re fun, they make people forget about their day. – James Van Der Beek
You can’t really pretend something is rosier than it is and expect people to buy it. – James Van Der Beek
I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives – and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan. That’s why it’s my favorite city. You can do what you want without attracting a crowd of curious onlookers. – James Van Der Beek
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. – James Van Der Beek
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. – James Van Der Beek
I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives – and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan. – James Van Der Beek
