Nick Quotes

A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.

I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.

I love you forever. I am sorry I cannot love you now.

I am a hard house freak and I don't care who knows.

You've got a fairly good idea as to what the questions are going to be. But how to record the best answer is another matter.

There's a fear that I don't think people are interested in my actual opinion. I just think people are interested in me being funny.

We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too.

The outward manifestations of an inner combustion are never very directed.

You know what’s really good is a greyhound in the shower.

I feel like having an actual taxidermy-ed mammal would get gross, like its hair would get dirty and stuff.

I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.

I wouldn't date a girl with a bad attitude. I'm 'Mr. Positive.

According to Ferguson, grey things are invisible. Apparantly its just total luck that planes manage to find aircraft carriers in the middle of the ocean.

We have one of those conversations where every thing clicks, meshes, corresponds, locks, where even our pauses, even our punctuation marks, seem to be nodding in agreement.

I've always worn suits. To me they're a very practical kind of thing to wear. You put one on and don't really have to think about what you're going to wear.

The whole reason to study (and learn to control) body language is to have that support (rather than undercut) your message.

There are many differences between a baby and an I-Pod. And one of the biggest is, no ones going to mug you for your baby.

The key to comedy is commitment - if you're afraid, you shouldn't be a comedian.

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

I was drinking a lot of bourbon. I was miserable. I was starting to get work, but it wasn't remotely satisfying. It was garbage compared to the theater I was doing.

I'm opposed to a lot of the time that we as a civilization have come to spend looking at screens. For my money, life is much delicious damn near everyplace but inside that screen.

I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.

The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose.

College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.

Everybody makes mistakes. You have to be careful when you make your mistakes. Now is not a good time to make a mistake.

The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.

I think the most important thing is to feel comfortable. If you don't feel comfortable with what you're wearing it really shows.

Even when there's pressure and distractions and expectations from others or myself, it's a good thing. It just makes me a better person. It makes me stronger.

I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in.

With some CGI, I think the brain slightly perceives that things aren't real. There's no gravity, the light's not quite real, the shadows aren't quite real.

I dont plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were.

I'm not against free trade but I'm against free trade deals that are negotiated badly, that actually compromise jobs, manufacturing jobs, compromise the national interest.

That's one of the good things about being from the political centre, you're willing to work with both side of politics.

When I was in school, my former roommate went through hazing. I heard the stories, but I don't think I've seen a movie that captures the stuff that goes on.

There's nothing like the comfort of a silence that's comfortable.

This is a service station, we offer service. There is no higher purpose.

Music for us is about articulating the feelings you can't put into words.

There are times when I think I can sing it better, but usually I find that I can't.

Let's just say I can never be cast again after Ron Swanson. Then I have a life of theater and woodworking and my wife to look forward to, and that doesn't make me anything but very happy.

In L.A., you really are in your car all day alone, and there's very little public life.

I go to movies and concerts and stuff - that's why I think all my money would be gone if I weren't working because I just keep spending it, on that, and CDs, and I don't know.

in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.

Everybody gets better looking on TV as shows go on.Even the nerds on "Big Bang Theory" are getting better looking. Their clothes are getting nicer. They're better groomed. It works for them.

Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy.

I don't back down. I never win, but I don't back down

She was privileged enough to feel at home anywhere, and to equate squalor with authenticity.

The fight scenes in 'The World's End' have a certain balletic quality to them.