Nicholas Lea (Nicholas Christopher Herbert) Quotes

Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.

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• I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Army
  • Year
  • Soldier

• When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Character
  • Words

• There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Wonder
  • Story
  • Train

• 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.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Different
  • Movies
  • Choose

• There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Long
  • Memories
  • Enough

• I can't take the theater side out of myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Myself
  • Theater
  • Take

• Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party.

  

  Adam Kinzinger
  • Party
  • Day
  • Brand

• The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Process
  • Economy
  • Cost

• You'd never look at a Rembrandt and say, 'That's just wood and canvas and paint - how much?!' It's all about how many people want it. It works on a pair of jeans as well - they're just material and stitching, and as soon as you walk out of the shop, they're worth nothing.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Walk
  • Canvas

• Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Time
  • Sun
  • Beauty

• 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.'

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Thought
  • Story
  • Grandmother

• I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Up
  • Think
  • Past

• Georgia O'Keeffe proposed that I live with her. She was in New Mexico then, and I wanted to be in New York.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Live
  • Wanted
  • New York

• At the end of the day, I do think I'm happiest doing comedy. I love it. I know that I can do other things. I love drama as well.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Love
  • Comedy
  • Day

• No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Man
  • Changes
  • Been

• When I look at pictures when I was younger, I do the quintessential cringe.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Look
  • Pictures
  • Cringe

• He expressed the opinion that the world was in a deplorable state. I said, 'Don't talk rot, old Tom Travers.' 'I am not accustomed to talk rot,' he said. 'Then, for a beginner,' I said, 'you do it dashed well.' And I think you will admit, boys and ladies and gentlemen, that that was telling him.'

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • World
  • Opinion

• 'Landfill' by Daughter has calming, rich tones that are only improved upon by the gorgeous voice of Daughter.

  

  Ben Lovett Mumford & Sons
  • Daughter

• Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

  

  Andre Maurois
  • World
  • Family
  • Alone

• For me, one of the most important things I look for in an actor is whether we can converse. Do we have a similar ability to discuss a character?

  

  Jennifer Lynch
  • Important
  • Character

• The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • House
  • Beginning
  • Voice

• That’s because, like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesn’t teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Time
  • God
  • Growing

• Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.

  

  Nicholas Lea
  • Character
  • Story
  • Audience