Nick Quotes

We are communal beings who love to get together in groups and share emotions - like sporting events, rock concerts and political rallies. We crave tribal membership.

We all need to be astute in sending and reading power cues, so that we can prevent ourselves - and the world - from being manipulated by evil geniuses like Hitler.

It turns out that we determine who our leaders are by unconscious undertones we all project with our voices - and of which we're completely unaware.

CEOs will struggle to keep themselves and their companies current, relevant, and ahead of the curve.

We have a Marlboro Man Theory of leadership and change, especially in America, but in fact anything great that's accomplished is accomplished by many hands.

First ask why, and decide whether something is worth doing. Only after that should you set about doing it as well as you can.

Leaders can only lead willing, preferably zealous followers so don't get too far out in front of your team.

Don't let TV be a babysitter!!!!

You can turn something into art just because of the way you tell people to look at it.

I think you can move to everything, but with some music you just want to sit still. Like Claude Debussy - I couldn't dance to that.

Sometimes people can get shitty, but you won't last in music industry by taking things personally.

Whether you want to be the best at your job, or at sports, just do your best. Give it everything you have.

We all go through life and say a lot of things that we don't really mean.

I should really be retired. But then you find out how much you get in retirement. I don't know how you make it. It's really rough!

Class isn't something you buy. Look at you ... you've got on a $500 suit and you're still a low life.

I never liked the Oscars. They didn't do too much for me at all. I felt like a big, vulnerable hunk of baloney being used to sell some products.

Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie.

A career in acting, it's a learning process.

You've got to admit failure sometimes.

One thing we forget about Hispanics is that they're family-unit-oriented as a culture. So it's not all wild Mexican gangs out there, as is rumored.

Our educational system now teaches every kid the same thing. It's like rubber stamping!

Even though I play guitar, I don't do it publicly.

I don't see myself stopping, even though it gets harder and harder. Especially when you find out that you can't really compromise because of age.

We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way.

In fact, a child is not even considered a human being.

Just because your wife schmoozes with somebody too much, you can't go throwing the kids out with the bath water! And that's the way the law's tied up right now.

I'm not much of a song-and-dance man.

When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film.

I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.

Your dreams are always going to seem much more profound to you then they are to your friend.

Whatever it is you like to do, that's the sexiest part of you.

Whenever I have a stubborn position on something, I take a deep breath and swallow myself.

No matter how you decide to spend a little more time on your gestures of giving, the point is just quite simply that you do.

I've split my life between a few different disciplines.

I think that purity creates not only a higher level of artistic vision but a purer work ethic.

I really bridled when Parks And Rec became popular and woodworking publications wanted me to do stuff with them.

For years I drove a big Ford F250 pickup. That was my ride because two-thirds of my work was wood work, and I'm always driving up to Northern California, where I harvest salvaged trees.

My education began in theater school, and it continues to this day. I just continued learning to be a better performer.

I just always had a penchant for performing for people.I'm a jackass clown.

A lot of people find themselves in the entertainment business - or perhaps society steers them toward it - because they're beautiful.

When I first met with agents, they said, "Okay, you're going to play plumbers and mechanics and bus drivers and farmers. Go."

My uncles, who are farmers in Minooka, Illinois - I grew up with them and their pickup trucks and mustaches, and to me that was masculinity: big hairy sweaty guys who could pick up a bus.

I keep having these bros come up to me and say, "I used to watch you when I was a fetus," and I just want to kill them.

Shut your damn mouth.

I really thought that I'd be doing Shakespeare, honest to God. I did not foresee the whole action television thing. That was God's joke.

I like to play women who are not strong at all, because, there's certainly plenty of myself that is no kind of a warrior.

I'm quite excited to not play a Xena type character - it's probably closer to me than any character I've ever played.

We realized that the world of popular culture had been creating the perfect candidate for many years: the female champion of the universe.

The world is split into two halves: the bacon, and the bacon eaters.

Children are so egocentric - they want to watch their lives, and not yours.