James Badge Dale Quotes & Sayings

“I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe.”

“I'm a little bit superstitious, and I think that just comes from playing hockey. I won't avoid the number thirteen. A big one for me, though, is walking under a ladder. I've always felt like that's tempting fate. That's just throwing it right in their face. Check me out. I just walked under a ladder. What are you going to do about it?”

“The biggest regret I have about 'Rubicon' is that we didn't end it. Sometimes you do these shows and you don't have the opportunity to get closure. Stories are supposed to have a beginning, middle and an end.”

“I can't go to the hardware store, cut a sheet in half and staple it to the window anymore. It doesn't fly.”

“I was really lucky that, through my 20s, I got to work with some amazing people, and I tried to sit back and watch and learn.”

“I'm a pretty private person, so I'd like to say I'm a good ear and that I keep my mouth shut.”

“Kids will tease you for just about anything.”

“As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters. They're never perfect. They're flawed people put in extraordinary circumstances.”

“I always like playing the bad guys. They have more fun!”

“I grew up in a crazy, gypsy-like household of actors, dancers and loony Broadway people. It was their way of life, and I didn't know anything else.”