Nick Quotes

I was on a founding members of the Canadian theatre movement in the late 60's till the mid 70's and performed theatre from Halifax to Vancouver and all places in between.

We are the world. We are the people and we deserve better not because we're worth it but because no worth can be put on the incalculable, on the infinite, on life.

By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place. I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family. But no one is offering any clear information.

I don't do stunts and I don't think many actors do. For an actor to say they do their own stunts I don't think is very respectful of the profession of stunt men and women.

They say greatness skips a generation, but I think that's because the generation before helps too much.

There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.

The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make.

I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as we've developed technology.

I was frightened to go forward, but I was even more frightened of going back.

I always had a lot of confidence in my work and the unique flavor I like to bring to my characters, but you know I'm not a huge dreamer.

The fact that I have a job that people even watch is an incredible gift.

You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium.

I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.

Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane, the healthy, the lovable.

The trouble with history is that there are too many people involved

I don't put a great deal of stock in art trophies.

There's a lot of common sense ... which I feel like we have lost touch with.

You know, it's hard to beat bacon at anytime of day. But I also am a big fan of corned beef hash.

Only when you get into TV and film, do people really want you to be a 'specialist'.

Branding is quite an important thing. As an artist, you want to be able to explore facets of yourself.

If I had to pick one form of acting, it would be live theater. That's where I started; that's where I became a man, I think I'm still finishing up that job.

If I put down my tweeter machine for a minute, I actually can communicate with people. As an aside, astonishingly, I just started doing Twitter.

When I got to Los Angeles, I started building cabins in peoples’ yards, building post-and-beam structures and cutting the joinery for those.

I'm a very intermediate sax player, but now that Rob Lowe is on my show, I had to cop to him. Like, 'Dude your ridiculous fake sax playing [in St. Elmo's Fire] inspired me to pick up a horn.'

It's no wonder we're all such a mess, is it? We're like Tom Hanks in Big. Little boys and girls trapped in adult bodies and forced to get on with it.

I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway.

Life's a bowl of punch, go ahead and spike it!

Stay positive and love your life.

Art is like therapy; what comes up is what comes up. It may be dark, but that's what comes up. You may want to keep some of it in a drawer but never judge it.

We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action.

Raising the overtime threshold - something that is about to happen. This is more complex so not as many people understand it, but it's equally consequential.

I think some people see me as being some kind of lovable, bumbling buffoon, and I'm actually quite mouthy and sharp, and that doesn't compute.

The actor's life is the road. Always has been, always will be. That is his cross and his glory.

Sometimes shows suffer from having many cooks in the kitchen.

Right now, I'm as single as a slice of American cheese.

I was, like, a history major, and I minored in art and Spanish, but I found myself gravitating toward media studies as time went on.

I am a geek in terms of, I love 'Close Encounters' and I love 'Star Wars,' but other things... 'Doctor Who,' I don't really care about at all, I couldn't give a fig about it.

I'm sure I'm a schizophrenic. The problem is I can't tell the difference between which one's which, which one is the real me.

For me, a bit of anthropology in the evening is always better than staying and watching the telly.

We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale.

Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.

But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.

Over the last six years, airlines have experienced severe financial pressure to leave smaller communities, making demands on the EAS program even greater.

There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.

This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started.

People are not theirs thoughts, they think they are, and it brings them all kinds of sadness.

My Vocation is my Vacation. I love what I do.

I think what makes so many other actors miserable is focusing completely on making other plans. They're obsessed with their haircut and their headshot and their agent, their IMDB profile or whatever.

When you get on base, holes open up and things happen and you're able to find a way to score runs.