Nicholas Gonzalez Quotes

I am very happy that I am getting to play such layered and demanding characters. I feel blessed that directors are trusting me with such roles.

If you do a scene the right way, you can go home at the end of the day and really feel like you accomplished something.

You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.

I need to make sure that I'm taking roles that I feel like I can communicate through.

For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.

Pretty much everything that I pick, when it comes to choosing roles, is just based on things and materials that grabs me. It's pretty much the subject matter that I gravitate towards.

People say, 'Well, whose career do you follow? Where do you see your career going? What movie do you want to do next?' And I can't tell you what type of movie I would go and do next. I would have to read the script and feel for a character. And if I feel in my gut for a character, I know that that's somebody I have to play.

The platform doesn't really matter to me, whether it's stage or theatre or even a web series. I just am more interested in, like, if it's a story that I would want to watch and if it's a character that I feel like I can contribute something to, then that's really what gets me.

At the end of the day, I want to play characters that interest me.

I just really want to continue to play those roles where I really have something to do, and mainly, above all, work with people that I can learn from - directors I think are so great.

I have always chosen to portray roles which inspired me and mostly that I enjoy it in the first place.

I think something that every actor wants, whether they've done four movies or forty movies, is they want to find the work interesting. You want to come to work and think this is going to be a challenge.

I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.

I choose roles according to my sensibilities.

There are always things that I'd love to do. As an actor, none of them are specific; all I'm looking for are things that are good quality, that are challenging for me to work on, and even better if I get to work with people that I respect and am excited to work with.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

I want to do primarily film and theater; I always want to do a play because it feeds my soul. It's like an exercise on stage.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.

The way I choose parts is I look at the scripts... I choose a part by whether or not it challenges me.

I enjoy dramatic narration, of course, because I'm an actor and I started as an actor. But I love things that are a challenge, and I look forward to more work with that in the future. So there's always a sun coming up the following day for me.

I don't pick my roles by genre; that's kind of silly.

As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work.

As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.

I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.