Nick Quotes

I always call myself a "student" of the guitar.

Don't use barbiturates before going on stage. And be honest.

Actually, I'm not super-kickass at a lot of things.

When we think of an actor, we think of a tanned, frosted-tipped, model-looking guy. We don't think of a plumber.

My family has schoolteachers and librarians, and I think people who teach are probably some of our greatest American heroes. Certainly, underpaid and unsung.

People keep referring to me as a standup, and that just doesn't sit well with me because a lot of my friends are standups and they're brilliant at writing jokes, and I'm not.

I'm very hairy, and men in film and TV are no longer allowed to be hairy.

I'm always pleased that I managed to stay out of jail throughout my tenure in Chicago.

I'm obsessed with the Victorian era and the British Royal Navy... I'd love to play a troubled sailor or captain or a boatman on a three masted ship.

Before people figured out I was funny, I got cast quite a bit as either a rapist or serial killer or the guy who catches those people.

I am always so happy to be at 'SNL.' I still feel like a kid when I'm there, like I can't believe I'm watching them make the show.

I come from a family of fishermen. Fishing is very important to us. We don't hunt. We're not gun folk.

The quest for the next key art awards begins with tomorrow's hangover

I spent a lot of my youth working outside in the elements, and I kind of revel in defeating tough weather.

I would like Americans to make things with their hands. Thomas Jefferson and I feel that makes for a much stronger nation.

I've been working steadily as an actor since around 1998. I wasn't well known in the public, but I was a dependable working journeyman.

Being a man of the theater and a hedonist, I find the idea of building coffins very romantic.

I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in stage combat and also in Kabuki dance and Kabuki theater.

When I was in high school, I would perform every year in those plays and there was something I really loved about it. But I was completely unaware that you could sort of get into an acting career.

I always call performing live "giving the people the medicine," because when you're engaged in it, you can feel the sort of soul magic being exchanged between the performer and the audience.

When I got my job on Parks, it was so dreamy, kind of unfathomable. I didn't think a job that excellent could exist for me.

People are afraid that they're going to upset somebody on top, and so there's a real sense of, I've got to be quiet, I don't want to be fired.

It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

My wife happens to be probably the greatest working woman in comedy. I can't think of anyone who even approaches her achievements and her abilities.

I always drastically changed my look for each role. It's gotten a little tedious in real life, also, because there's no hiding.

No one will ever ask me to sing because it's beautiful. My secret is hiding my musicianship behind humor.

I learned as a young man that I don't write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a laugh. I call myself a humorist.

I also grew up building theatrical scenery. I spent many years building scenery as a large part of my income and that allowed me to really develop my shop skills.

I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to create machines that wouldn't otherwise be possible - inventions that seem real and actually work.

I always considered Ray Harryhausen's work so fine that it was way out of my league: in terms of realism and naturalism, in terms of animal movement.

When I was a teenager, my dad watched my films and told me I could go to art college and study animation. He made me see that I could do this for a living.

But I think people see 'Wallace and Gromit' as something akin to an elderly couple. These two know each other so well. Nothing can split them apart.

We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past.

I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas.

If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.

Peace cannot come from punishing the Palestinian people.

I felt very grown up when I was wearing makeup, thank you very much.

I think maybe my attention span is too long to tweet.

Obviously with every new album we make, we always have to believe in it and feel we've gone in the right direction.

You can only sleep in one bed at a time.

I suppose that I'm fairly comfortable with the clown hat on.

I love pop culture. I love to be inside of it, and step outside and look back in.

I still love music - that's never gonna go away.

Having a studio at home is like having a gym at home - sometimes you're just better off going out.

If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

The most stylish country in the world is Italy.

The Internet is the greatest tool for any artist to have interaction with any audience.

MTV didn't exist in 1980, but by 1982, it had gotten to be a force to be reckoned with.

I put my heart and soul into my book - great story and awesome characters... yet people are trying to pull me down.

Sometimes you find that there is better material in small and more independent movies. There's more risk-taking.