Thomas Ian Nicholas Quotes

I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.

For me, when I'm making a movie I like to stay in character throughout the day.

Character is plot, and casting is character.

Like any other actor, I also look for good scripts and want to portray some memorable characters on screen.

I play my part in my films with utmost honesty.

The only thing I have tried to do is be a part of different films and bring out a different side of me as an actor every time I play a character. I would like to be known as a versatile actor.

I'd like to have a different look for every film. As an actor, I think I should put more emphasis on my performance than on my looks.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone.

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

Whether it's t-shirt and jeans or full monster suit, I'm still an actor underneath it all, and a good director is going to know that.

I'd love to do a film. I'd love to play a character that I know the beginning, middle and end of.

I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

What I truly get excited about is not the genre of a movie or the size of a part - it's character. I like to find characters.

The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good.

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

Acting is so exciting to me. It's a thrill; otherwise I wouldn't do it. Not to be hokey, but I think life is definitely worth living, whether you're working or not. For an actor, the character is the thing... it doesn't matter what medium you're in. as long as you have something to do.

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

I don't have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.

I'm an actor. It's my job.

In every movie I do have a dialogue.

We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story.

My face lends itself to austere characters, and unless they're two-dimensional, I will do them. Any actor will tell you that an interesting villain is much more interesting to play.

I'm an actor.

I want to do films that challenge me. I want to do what the actors I look up to are doing - the Gary Oldmans and Daniel Day-Lewises.