James Van Der Beek quotes:

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.

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.

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

I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.

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

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.

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.'

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

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.

Had my first son this morning... well, actually, my wife had him. I just caught him. Wo. Heart expanding way faster than my brain... If you could bottle up and distribute this feeling, I swear there'd be no more war.

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

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.

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.

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.

If a rumor comes out that I'm gay, I could care less. There are so many worse things that they could be saying.

I love sports and I love sports movies.

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.

Ok, this is the most unfun threesome I have ever been a part of. Nobody's having sex and someone is yelling. I'm out of here.

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

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

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

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

The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy.

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

I believe every religion captures a piece of the truth.

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

When you're the lead of a series, things happen around you, and you react to them.

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

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.

You get a script and you love it. You find a director that you trust, and it becomes all about how do I commit to this as fully as possible? And the last thing you can afford to have in your mind is what are other people going to think of this?

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

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

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