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've only dyed my hair blond once, after 'Varsity Blues.'

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

Wit Which Very

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

James Van Der Beek

Whenever Want UN

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

Health Chance Art

I believe every religion captures a piece of the truth.

James Van Der Beek

Truth Religion Very

I never wear white or black socks.

James Van Der Beek

White Wear T

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

James Van Der Beek

Were T Suit

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 Theory T

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

James Van Der Beek

Ways Way Trapped

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

Romantic Life Your

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

Respect Yourself Yours

I remember one day during my freshman year of high school, when as usual I was obsessively listening to a cast recording: it may have been 'Jesus Christ Superstar.' And I remember sitting there, totally absorbed, saying to myself, 'I can do this.'

James Van Der Beek

Yin Year Usual

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

Imagination Art Wit

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

Love York Wood

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

James Van Der Beek

Work Yourself Yours

I can intellectualize myself out of anything.

James Van Der Beek

Thing Thin Tell

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

James Van Der Beek

Success You Wit

Don't ever put anything past kids. They will surprise you in the best ways.

James Van Der Beek

You Will Ways

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

James Van Der Beek

You Thing Thin

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

Work You Will

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. So, I just keep my private life to myself.

James Van Der Beek

I started out doing theater in N.Y.C.

James Van Der Beek

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.

James Van Der Beek

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

James Van Der Beek

I love sports and I love sports movies.

James Van Der Beek