Nick Robinson (Nicholas Anthony Robinson) Quotes

A worldly actor is a better actor. It sounds pretentious, but I think having these experiences can translate back into your work.

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• My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• As for the device we now call a TV or a cable box, I want it to be fast with a clean interface and seamlessly upgradeable to the latest software. I want it to be the primary source of all TV, not an ancillary device.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Want
  • Software
  • Box

• When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Lost
  • Moments
  • Risk

• Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Life
  • Up
  • Universe

• 'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • Good
  • Great
  • Different

• It always starts with a script. I like to have plenty of time to read something, and I always like to read a paper copy. I hate reading it on email. I sit down with a script, and want to see how it hits me. It's an instinctive process.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Reading

• I've been with my husband and friends for so long, I've forgotten what is unappealing to new people.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Long
  • Friends

• Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Think
  • Better
  • Relationships

• You can talk good ideas out of existence.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Good
  • Ideas
  • Existence

• I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Honor

• When I started out playing small clubs, you could feel the room recoil from certain kinds of songs. Anything that was too personal, that had a sentiment to it, or was laying out your feelings, was immediately booed. People would start throwing things. And anything that was really provocative or humorous or radical was embraced or cheered.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Small
  • Start

• Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right - that it sometimes discourages innovation - then we should worry.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Worry
  • Innovation
  • Inspire

• The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Act

• Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Bridge
  • Ice

• The best world is one in which all countries cooperate with one another to kind of meet each other's needs and be partners in the process.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Best
  • Process

• I remember as a little boy I ate one meal a day and sometimes slept in the street. I will never forget that and it inspires me to fight hard, stay strong and remember all the people of my country, trying to achieve better for themselves.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Country
  • Trying

• I think that every male actor fantasizes with a boxing film.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Think
  • Film
  • Boxing

• And if that child should ever get the chance to travel the world and someone should ask her where is she from, we believe that she should always be able to hold her head high with pride in her voice when she answers, "I am an American." That is the course we seek. That is the change we are calling for.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Believe
  • Children

• From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Night
  • Day
  • Sea

• Can we call the essay its own genre if it's so promiscuously versatile? Can we call any genre a 'genre' if, when we read it from different angles and under different shades of light, the differences between it and something else start becoming indistinguishable?

  

  John D'Agata
  • Different
  • Light

• I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Think

• I'm always eager to work with people I admire, people who have experience, who've made mistakes and made great things. That's the greatest teaching I could ever get in developing my own career.

  

  Aneurin Barnard
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• A worldly actor is a better actor. It sounds pretentious, but I think having these experiences can translate back into your work.

  

  Nick Robinson
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