Nic Pizzolatto (Nicholas Austin Pizzolatto) Quotes
I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.
Quotes to Explore
-
I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.
-
I love the idea of animation just because it removes the actor from the character, and you can be anything. I've been devouring 'Adventure Time' and 'Archer.' I'd love to get my hands dirty on either of those shows.
-
What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.
-
Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
-
2016 is going to be a fight. A fight between conservatism and a Democrat Party that is undermining the very character of our nation.
-
The wonderful thing about drama school is that it stretches you in a way the industry doesn't.
-
I tested on a lot of TV shows and films after I finished drama school.
-
If I could remake any Eighties project, it would be less an action flick than a character-driven drama with a rich story to tell.
-
Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.
-
I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.
-
Companies need to understand that the quicker they report product safety problems to CPSC, the quicker we can take action together and protect consumers from injuries.
-
Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously.
-
Action is character.
-
When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.
-
If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that's just the way it is with me.
-
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
-
You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.
-
For me it's even more interesting, because my character comes out of the shadow. It's a chance to really act emotionally, because the situation is an extreme one.
-
My character should not be ordinary, cliched, and if I feel that it's difficult to do this character, I take up that challenge to get into his character.
-
You want to stake your own claim. You don't want to be called a copycat.
-
I got a scholarship, so I was getting my independence and not paying for school. And then here comes the NFL. 'Now you got an opportunity to get drafted? Guess we'll do that.' I did, all right.
-
Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness.
-
I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.
