Nick Jonas Quotes
I feel the most connected to my art when it comes from my real life and hopefully the audience feels that.
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When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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My family is a praying family, a Christian family.
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I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
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I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. If I did, I probably would choose even more different roles than I've played.
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People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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Hamas has effectively kidnapped Gaza. Instead of turning it into the Singapore of the Middle East that was promised, they have turned it into a fortress of terror.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.
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Retiring is the easy way out.
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Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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I don't shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all the pieces in the editing. I do a lot of takes, but it's because I'm looking for something.
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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
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I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.
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When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'
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I'm so stupid because I refuse to think that I'm getting older. I get up in the morning, and it's like, 'La, la, la, I'm so pretty.' I still mingle with a lot with young people. I even go to college campuses to talk to them because I know how they think. They don't think I'm boring, either. They think I'm cool, but I want them to think I'm hot!
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After 9/11, I changed a lot of the ways I viewed the world. I realized my comedy and my politics and my view of the world did not match. I had to start writing from my heart.
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My vibe was to just move forward at a really cool pace.
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I feel the most connected to my art when it comes from my real life and hopefully the audience feels that.
