Nick Cannon (Nicholas Scott Cannon) Quotes
This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started.
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I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
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The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?
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And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.
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I like that whole cop-comedy type of drama.
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For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.
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In graduate school, Aubrey Berg at the Cincinnati Conservatory gave me the chance to perform with the best in the country in Broadway caliber productions.
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I think everyone should live in New York City if they ever get the chance at least once in their life. It's such a great place to live; there's a different energy about living in the city.
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I looked for acting classes in Paris just to do something different than modeling. And then one day I just thought, 'Okay, that's enough, I have to start doing something.' I went to the acting agency and I just told them I wanted to act and asked them if they would give me a chance, and they did.
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When I was I kid, there were so many different things that I wanted to be. As an actor, I get a chance to be all of those things, at least for a couple of days, which is fun.
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Honestly, I'm on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games.
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I really like Lady GaGa and everything she is for her fans.
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I was very serene, and I still am, until I start talking in another voice, then suddenly I have a lot of volume and I'm frantic. But I didn't want to be one of those people who's always talking in accents in real life, so I started doing sketch comedy.
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The best comedy I ever did was when people didn't know who I was.
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You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.
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I first started as an actor, but there was no money in it, which is why I drifted into comedy.
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I enjoy doing comedy for the fact that you go to work and you laugh. That's a good combination.
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Comedy, when it works, is light on its feet and has the illusion of complete spontaneity: as if there is no film, no camera. You are standing there experiencing it all in real time. This illusion, I believe, is why so many people think comedy is easy.
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I get a lot of inspiration from the audience feedback to our live shows.
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When you have a writing partner and you're writing a comedy, your goal is to make each other laugh.
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When fans start screaming when they see me it makes my heart smile.
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Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My Dear! That love of yours was mine.
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I've met a surprising number of comedy writers whose parents are scientists. Both have an antiauthoritarian slant - they're both skeptics.
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This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started.
