Nick Mancuso (Nicodemo Antonio Massimo "Nick" Mancuso) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.
-
I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't - you know, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.
-
The life of an actor can be very enviable.
-
I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.
-
I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.
-
I think it would be pompous to say I am an underrated actor. I don't think it is for me to think and decide; it is for people to decide. But I am glad I am underrated than being overrated - that is something I would find hard to digest.
-
If I get asked to talk to a group of CEOs or a group of high school students, I pick high school students.
-
My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
-
I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.
-
My freshman year at Harrison High School, I saw a journalism class where students were putting out a weekly newspaper. It touched a responsive chord in me.
-
The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
-
I've met Michael Keaton, John Favreau, Marisa Tomei - they're all really amazing people and really, really professional. I've learned so much from just watching them operate on set.
-
It was awkward because the high school that I went to, my aunt taught at, it was this private boy's school in D.C. There were one or two teachers that I had the hots for, but never fully expressed my feelings because my aunt was always watching.
-
When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.
-
We live in one of the most complex ages for young, professional women.
-
Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
-
For a short time I was an assistant to a professional photographer, and I felt that my soul was not there. That is the stage when I decided to stay in London and do a graduate degree.
-
We shot 'High School Musical' in eight weeks. I spent longer rehearsing for 'Hairspray' than filming 'High School Musical'.
-
Obviously I'd love to work with any of these great directors because every time I've worked with them I've gained a tremendous amount as an actor. Each director has his own way of pushing you towards improving yourself.
-
I never really committed to being an actor. It never felt like it would be possible, I guess.
-
I never used to drink water. I am drinking six liters of water every day now. That's the key.
-
I'm a perfectionist to a fault.
-
Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.
-
I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19.
