james spader is the emmy-award winning actor. his films include "pretty in pink" and "trash" and won emmys for "boston legal" here's some of his work. >> talk to me about more than sexy. >> no, you're not. i don't understand. >> get off my car. >> i used to express my feeling nonverbally. >> are you still like that? >> no. >> look at it. you see that? >> what? there's three typing errors. one of which i believe say spelling error. >> i'm sorry. >> this isn't the first time other. there's others i looked over in the first few weeks. this cannot go on. if mercy truly lives within these walls, within your hearts as justices, as people, you cannot cause this man to be injected for chemicals for the purpose of killing him for a crime he possibly did not commit. he felt it was important you know that. >> will he be unhappy if we lose? >> the money i manager to raise for this endeavor is for your lodging. >> you didn't raise much. >> should we get to work. >> this is the best i can do. this is exactly what i wanted. all of you against a

i am pleased to have james spader at this table. what do you say about those performances?ughter] james: i don't have much to say about that. they have to speak for themselves. they seem almost disconnected from me when i see them like that. almost all of those feel like -- even more recent things feel like a distant memory. charlie: really? why do you think that is? because so many other interesting things have happened in your life? james: it's partly that, but i think it's also a question of volume of material more than anything else. i'm working on a television show now, and there's such an enormous amount of material that one is working with. charlie: you keep working as hard as you do for what reason? james: i wish that i could -- i wish that i could come up with an answer that felt not as pragmatic as the truth, but the truth is that i work as hard as i do -- it's twofold. i work as hard as i do to pay for my life, and the economics of being an actor has changed dramatically in the last 20 years, even more dramatically in the last 10 years. to make a living that i fe