Nick Swardson (Nicholas Roger Swardson) Quotes
It's rare that I've read a script where I'm like, "Oh, my god, it's hilarious!" All you want is a good skeleton and good characters. Then, you can go, "Okay, I can bring a lot to this. I can improvise and I can create something out of this."
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Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
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You have to create something from nothing.
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All of my characters are less than perfect.
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We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
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Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!
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All these big corporations like Amazon, those places have great distribution arms, but they can't create content.
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You have to be very careful with the art you create and you put out.
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If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.
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What happens in improv is you create your own storyline.
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I like to mix and match vintage with designer. It's how I create my own style.
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But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
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So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.
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For me, 'Mommy' was about developing very humane characters that would be very credible and endearing and work onscreen.
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One of the hardest things is to create hope.
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I don't spend time thinking about an aesthetic out of which I create or an ideal toward which my body of work is heading. It's amazing, when I read interviews with other poets, to see how articulately they discuss their own writing, as if they were sharing long-held theories on the work of Pope or Keats. I'm happy enough that I've poured the best of myself into the poems themselves.
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('Mad Men') was my final audition of the pilot season. It had been three miserable, horrible months where I had zero callbacks, zero positive reception, one of those pilot seasons that makes you pretty sure you are never going to be an actor and never want to be an actor. And then that happened.
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Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what does congress mean?
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Hysteria, epilepsy, tuberculosis, and cancer were all found to result from the erratic propensities of a past life.
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It's rare that I've read a script where I'm like, "Oh, my god, it's hilarious!" All you want is a good skeleton and good characters. Then, you can go, "Okay, I can bring a lot to this. I can improvise and I can create something out of this."
