James Marsden Net Worth

James Marsden's Quotes

• If you're an attractive guy, everyone thinks you're successful just because of the way you look. I hate that.
• If you're lucky enough to pick what you do, that's the greatest career you can have. Ultimately, that's my goal: to have choices. - Interview with Men's Health, May 2007.
• If expectations are low, you can only impress people. But if expectations are there for you to be the leading guy, and you've been paid X amount of money, you're on a tightrope and all of a sudden you're looking down. If it was up to me now, I would just stay on the up-and-coming list until I'm like 90.
• (On starting out in L.A. and his fame level now) A little job here, a little job there, and after six months in L.A., I was paying for my rent and my meals. Very slowly, the tiniest of snowballs snowballed from there. At some point, the snowball got to be a nice size, and I wanted it to stay that way. That's sort of now. I don't want it to keep rolling. Or rather, I want it to keep rolling, but I don't want it to keep getting bigger.
• My wife, kids and I still fly coach -- not first-class. I think I have a certain responsibility to let my children know I am not special because of what I do, but who I am as a person.

Interesting Facts about James Marsden

1. He has two sisters: Jennifer - age 24 and Elizabeth - age 12, as at 2004. Jennifer lives in Studio City, California and Elizabeth in Manhattan, Kansas.
2. Attended Oklahoma State University
3. Father, with ex-wife Lisa Linde, of son Jack Holden Marsden, born on February 1, 2001, in Los Angeles, weighing 7 lbs., 14 oz.
4. In 1991, while vacationing with his family in Hawaii, he met actor Kirk Cameron and his actress sister Candace Cameron Bure; the Camerons invited Marsden to visit in L.A. and thus began his career.
5. Lost out to Edward Norton for a role in Primal Fear (1996).
6. Turned down the lead role in 54 (1998). Ryan Phillippe later got the role.
7. Graduated from Putnam City North High School (located in Oklahoma City) class of 1991.
8. Joined the Delta Tau Delta fraternity while at Oklahoma State.
9. His father is a Distinguished Professor of Animal Sciences & Industry at Kansas State University.
10. He wore lifts for most of his scenes in the X-Men movies, because his character Cyclops is supposed to be 6' 3" compared to a 5' 3" Wolverine. In actuality, Marsden is under 6 feet tall, slightly shorter than Famke Janssen (as his love interest, (Jean Grey) and approximately 4 inches inches shorter than Hugh Jackman (who played Wolverine).
11. An accomplished singer.
12. Father, with ex-wife Lisa Linde, of daughter Mary James Marsden, born on 10 August 2005.
13. Has worked 4 times with actress Rebecca Romijn: X-Men (2000), X-Men 2 (2003), The Alibi (2006), and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006).
14. Also has two brothers, Jeff and Robbie.
15. Is commonly confused as being the brother of actor Jason Marsden. Although the two are not related, they are actually good friends and their respective wives have been friends since they were six.
16. Ex-son-in-law of Dennis Linde.
17. Third child, son William Luca Costa-Marsden, was born on 14 December 2012. Mother is model Rose Costa.
18. His ancestry is mostly English and German, with some Scottish, and distant French.
19. He starred in two musicals in 2007: Hairspray (2007) and Enchanted (2007).
20. Considered for the role of Johnny Rico in Starship Troopers (1997).