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James Badgett Dale (born May 1, 1978), known professionally as James Badge Dale, is an American actor. He is known for his roles as State Trooper Barrigan in Martin Scorsese's The Departed and as Eric Savin in Iron Man 3.

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You want to work with good people. When you're working with good people, it frees you up. There's nothing worse, as an actor, to show up and then feel like you have to protect yourself somehow because you don't feel like you're in good hands.

Actors, Hands, Like, People, Work

When you're outside in those elements, there's something out there that takes it out of you, so you work real hard. It was physically demanding, but in a very good way. It's not a bad thing. It's a good thing, when things are physically demanding 'cause everyone is rising to the occasion.

Elements, Good, Real, Rising, Work

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?

Big, Fate, Hockey, Tempting, Think, Thinking

en you show up to work and put on your undergarments, throw on your suspenders and your cowboy boots, throw some dirt on you, and then get on your spurs, you start to walk a bit different. When you put on your gun belts, you change again. You go through this whole transformation process. All that stuff changes you. Riding a horse changes the way you walk and your demeanor.

Horse, Gun, Cowboy, Whole, Riding

As we were negotiating, I didn't have a script. Once the deal is closed, they let you read the script. So, I got the script and was reading it like, "Oh, please be good!," because I'd already signed on the dotted line. And I read it and just went, "Okay, I'm going to be okay. Thank god!" It was a really funny, moving story.

Moving, Please, Reading, Signed, Thank God

I've been trying to figure out what moment The Lone Ranger came into our lives. We've always just known about The Lone Ranger. It's common knowledge. I don't ever remember watching the television show.

Came, Common, Known, Lives, Television, Trying

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.

Crazy, Dancer, Dancers, Grew, People, Way

I've never been someone to count lines, look at it that way.

Count, Lines, Looks, Way

Marvel is very secretive, so there was no script. About six months before production, they gave me some pages and it was from a cop movie. And then, six months later, I got a phone call saying, "Do you want to come do this?" [iron Man]

Men, Phones, Iron, Gave, Phone, Man

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

Bad, Bad Guys, Fun, Guy, Like, Playing

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.

Book, Character, People, Relatable, Perfect

I got beat up by the comic-book kids when I was younger! They were cooler than me. Talk about levels of geekdom, I was a couple rungs below the kids who read comic books. Yeah. Not so cool, man.

Book, Cool, Couple, Kids, Levels

I like pressure. Pressure is good.

Pressure, Good, Like

I grew up in a family of actors. I grew up onstage. The choice for me wasn't, 'Do I want to be an actor or not?' I always felt like that's just ingrained in you, the need to perform. The choice was, 'Do you want to do this professionally or not?

Choices, Needs, Actors, Grew, Onstage

I've always thought that I'm kind of a cross between a young Bill Clinton and Lyle Lovett. And I just want to say I'm proud of that. Those are two good looking guys.

Two, Guy, Want, Good, Clinton, Guys

I always like playing the bad guys. They have more fun! I want a director to come up to me and say, "You can't get too weird!" That's a good thing. I loved hearing that. Let me play. I like to play around.

Fun, Guy, Like, Loved, Play

These stunt guys are good at what they do and they're professional. A smart actor will step back and say, "I'm going to let the professionals do this. " Hats off to those guys, man. When you see the credits scroll, look at all those stunt guys and remember all those names 'cause they earned their money on this.

Earned, Let, Man, Men, Names, Smart

My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor.

Actors, Drowning, Experience, Make, Network, Television

The physicality was important to me. Because the film has Shane Black's dialogue, and [Robert] Downey's delivery, and you look at [Jon] Favreau, Don Cheadle and Gwyneth [Paltrow], it is this heightened level with a comedic aspect to it. Everything is grounded in reality, but it plays a little heightened.

Black, Delivery, Gwyneth, Heightened, Play, Reality

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

Ears, Mouths, Persons, Person, Mouth, Say

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