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 think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.
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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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There was no child oncology in Uzbekistan and in Russia you don't have a chance because there are already so many on the waiting lists.
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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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To be honest with you, the dramatic side is more fun to play because I don't get to do it as often as I get to do the comedy stuff. Most of my work in this business has been comedy, and that's sort of the way the cookie crumbles. I had not sought out to just be a comedic actor, but I think that's my default because I come from a funny family.
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I'm a massive yoga head. Lots of yoga and lots of running. I do Bikram yoga. I adore it.
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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.
