Nolan North Quotes

#1. I know a lot of games have been going to the facial capture. And movies like 'TinTin' are using it, as well.

Nolan North

#2. One thing that's unique to 'Uncharted' is something called 'chasing picture,' where Naughty Dog run a section of gameplay and I'm allowed to ad-lib over it. We call it 'panning for gold.'

Nolan North

#3. There was a time when all the actors were saying, 'We should get residuals on videogames.' I just kept going, 'You don't have any idea what goes into making a game, do you?'

Nolan North

#4. I love, love, love the street-cart food. Gyros are like a meat-flavored fruit roll-up. A meat roll-up.

Kumail Nanjiani

#5. The tailor from 'Avatar' actually made my suit for 'Uncharted 3.' And no, it's not a hand-me-down from Sam Worthington. My 11-year-old would fit in Sam Worthington's. I'm 6' 1, 180 pounds.

Nolan North

#6. I am a person who believes in the good of people and who may have had things influence them to a certain degree, but deep down I think most people are good and would like to be good.

Nolan North

#7. I revel in my anonymity. But when I'm at a specific event and gamers are there, they'll recognise me.

Nolan North

#8. Barbie wasn't sure there was that much difference between city mice and country mice when they were under stress, but he kept his mouth shut.

Stephen King

#9. A gentle, warm, sweet pain spreads through my chest at those words.

Aleksandr Voinov

#10. Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

Wayne Dyer

#11. The day will never come when any Palestinian would be arrested because of his political affiliation or because of resisting the occupation. The file of political detention must be closed.

Said Seyam

#12. The seed is the fetus, in other words, a true plant with its parts (that is, its leaves, of which there are usually two, its stalk or stem, and its bud) completely fashioned.

Marcello Malpighi

#13. I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the same - although with videogames it requires a lot of imagination.

Nolan North

#14. If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care.

Brigitte Bardot

#15. The Republic of South Sudan does not belong to a particular tribe - it belongs to all tribes of South Sudan; those who think so should think coherently. The truth is, tribalism kills and destroys.

Duop Chak Wuol

#16. Because Naughty Dog relies on their facial team to hand animate the faces of each game character and they do such a remarkable job, I think you can be more realistic with your acting. It gives the story and what's happening to you the feeling that it's a game.

Nolan North

#17. I've always had a penchant for dialects. I remember getting detention and being told, 'Have a think about where doing these funny voices might get you someday.'

Nolan North

#18. The really best acting is children in a playground or in a backyard. They're just lost in their imagination. The backyard isn't a pirate ship or a jungle, in the same way that the soundstage isn't Shambala.

Nolan North

#19. selected to 'IGN START'.

Gib Vogel

#20. There's something known as the Uncanny Valley where things look a little too real and you're not quite sure what you're looking at. It becomes weird like it did in 'The Polar Express,' where the eyes seem so realistic, and yet you know it's animated.

Nolan North

#21. I don't have an office. I sit in a cubicle with everybody else. That's partly so no one can ask for an office, which in a fast-growing company isn't practical. But it's also so I can keep my finger on the pulse of how people are feeling.

Kevin P. Ryan

#22. Of all the games I've done, the only time I've ever lost my voice was on 'Call Of Duty 2,' playing a rasping Russian captain on the Stalingrad level.

Nolan North

#23. My first motion capture game was with Sony - 'NBA: The Life.' It was very ahead of its time. Brandon Akiaten, he was the writer and director. He had a real vision of what this game was meant to be; it was a basketball game where I was the Jerry Maguire sports agent type guy. And it was great!

Nolan North

#24. I eventually became an actor, starting with doing stand-up comedy in New York and then theater wherever they would let me. Finally, I moved out here to Los Angeles and got on a show.

Nolan North

#25. I don't think there's room in video games for people to bring an ego. It's very frustrating for any actor to have someone who's a celebrity take over your place. Like the 'Uncharted' film, they're trying to find someone to play Nathan Drake. And it's like, why do they not think of us? We do this.

Nolan North

#26. 'Uncharted' is the best job I've ever had. Film, television, whatever - it's without doubt the best. It's changed my life.

Nolan North

#27. I watch television all the time, mostly PBS and old movies like 'The Quiet Man,' my favorite Wayne movie. It's marvelous. I just loved the man and still do.

James Arness

#28. The three-part whats to winning:
1. What you have.
2. What you need.
3. What you believe.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#29. Not that I'm saying you have OCD or anything. You just like things to be organized. Really, really organized.

Katie Ruggle