James Woods
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"James Howard Woods" is an United States/American actor, producer and voice artist. After his first Golden Globe nomination for a breakthrough role in The Onion Field (film)/The Onion Field (1979), Woods starred in Once Upon a Time in America, the Oliver Stone films Salvador (film)/Salvador and Nixon (film)/Nixon, Ghosts of Mississippi, and in the legal series Shark (TV series)/Shark. He has won three Emmy Awards – for television movies Promise (film)/Promise and My Name Is Bill W., and for the animated series Hercules (1998 TV series)/Hercules. He has been nominated twice for an Academy Award. His voice work has been heard in the animated series The Simpsons, Family Guy, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and in films Stuart Little 2 (as Falcon) and Disney's Hercules (1997 film)/Hercules (as Hades).

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Hold on a second, I got a hand here... you don't mind if I play while we talk? It's part of the charm of this entire event.

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No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

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Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.

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I would give you seven to one odds that this is going to be a slash piece, but that's OK. I'm willing to take the heat.

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The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

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Golf takes me out of the crap of a sick world. Golfers are genuinely courteous in a discourteous world. Show me a guest on The Jerry Springer Show who's a golfer.

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When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that everyone in our school was a virgin.

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My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.

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I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.

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