Nicholas Lea (Nicholas Christopher Herbert) Quotes

It's not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it.

Nicholas Lea

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• I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Up
  • America
  • Freedom

• What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • House
  • Leader

• One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• My whole plan in my head has always been, if I go a year without acting, it's time to go home; it's time to go back to Montreal.

  

  Vanessa Lengies
  • Time
  • Home
  • Year

• I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • School
  • Why

• My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Play
  • Singing

• You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what they're saying, it's quite hard to find cracks.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • You
  • Find
  • Saying

• The main cause of Europe's deep fall - the losses of inclusion, job satisfaction and wage growth - is the devastating slowdown of productivity that began in the late 1990s and struck large swaths of the continent. It holds down the growth of wages rates, and it depresses employment.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Job
  • Fall
  • Deep

• We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.

  

  Valerie June
  • Me
  • Songs
  • Image

• I like Disney stuff. No-one looks at 'Toy Story' and says,' Oh, that's just for kids.' Why is it that games can only appeal to a certain audience, but movies and books - I mean, how many adults read 'Harry Potter?'

  

  Warren Spector
  • Why
  • Kids
  • Story

• There's no alternative to Catalan independence.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Independence
  • Alternative

• It's true that I'm even better than I could have imagined, both in football and in my private life!

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Life
  • True
  • Football

• In today's U.S., it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Women
  • High
  • Today

• I'm not thuggin' for me, I'm thuggin' for my family, I pay all the bills, I feed my whole family, wrong or right, I do and I can't stop.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Family
  • Stop
  • Thuggin

• There was never a moment when I was like, 'I'm going to enter the public conversation on the importance of female nudity.'

  

  Chelsea Handler

• If I'm not working and getting my makeup done, that's my chance to do a hair mask and a face mask and my plucking and waxing and all of that.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Done
  • Hair
  • Makeup

• Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Funny
  • Play
  • Like

• It's fun to do accents; it's fun to do different periods - that's why you become an actor. Because it's fun to be a storyteller and play make-believe.

  

  Jean Smart
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Why

• I like to watch Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern, because I like them when they travel. I like Ina Garten, 'The Barefoot Contessa.' Giada is really nice, but I get a little bit bored with just staying in the kitchen.

  

  Debi Mazar
  • Nice
  • Travel
  • Bored

• With 'The Librarians,' we want to be a smart, fun, crazy, genre show, but we also want to be something that people of all ages can watch and enjoy. That, to me, does seem to be increasingly harder to find.

  

  Dean Devlin
  • People
  • Fun
  • Crazy

• What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• It's not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it.

  

  Nicholas Lea
  • Fun
  • Play
  • Villain