Nick Cannon (Nicholas Scott Cannon) Quotes
I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.
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I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.
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I'm a huge gamer. I play a lot of games, and I play one game until I'm really, really good at it.
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
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The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.
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I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.
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I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.
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Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.
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Actors are actors, and there should be a complete fluidity for anyone to play anything.
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My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.
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If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.
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Crying is really bad for your vocal cords.
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We're playing like we are capable of playing. If we can continue to play like this we'll be fine.
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But the paparazzi are quite malicious and vocal and really rude, ... And they camped outside of my house, so I started throwing eggs at them, lobbing them at rocks next to them.
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I want to be able to have a conversation with people. I don't want to be stupid. I'd like to have a life outside acting.
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I think South Africa would be in a lot worse position had you not had visionaries like the Mandelas or the Oliver Tambos or the people there who came together after... both during apartheid and afterwards to create and structure their society.
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I love what I do on the field and that takes a lot of my time. But I also make time to help other people because a lot are not as fortunate as I am.
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I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.
