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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You can reveal yourself on stage in a way that you can't on TV. If you drop a character on TV, it's death. Each character has to be ruthlessly, faultlessly played. But live, you can hint at what's going on behind. You can let the audience in a bit and go off the script.
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History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.
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I guess, somewhere along the line, when we first came out, somebody thought it was a crime to be young and not wear a cowboy hat and sing country music.
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An utter and complete tyrant, her face only melted at Mass, a ritual she clearly loved.
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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."
