Nicholas Brendon Quotes

#1. When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened.

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#2. As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?'

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#3. Look, I know what it feels like to believe you're 'different' in a bad way.

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#4. I would just like to leave this big, floating rock having inspired somebody, having made a difference. It doesn't mean I have to be a huge megastar. I would like to entertain people. I love to do that.

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#5. It was nice to make things right, and I went to prom and actually had a good time in the TV world - the real world wasn't so much fun.

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#6. I couldn't help feeling people thought I was a moron, and my self-imposed insecurity constantly bedeviled me.

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#7. It's funny, when you become an actor and you're successful, they don't want to talk about acting any more. 'Hey let's talk about that stuff you were fired from.'

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#8. My brain is just always going and going and going.

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#9. I played baseball in college but I didn't identify with the jocks, I was in my own little world .

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#10. I had a stutter 'till ... I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood.

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#11. I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.

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#12. No one escapes being haunted by something that absolutely terrifies them to the core, but very few feel it's okay to admit what it is that haunts us.

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#13. I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking ... my stomach would just be in knots.

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#14. I will always have a stutter.

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#15. I try to maintain the perspective that life is meant to be laughed at.

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#16. Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.

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#17. I've had to work on being a slow talker.

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