Corin Nemec Quotes

• Emmanuel Lewis was amazing to work with. I’ll love that guy to the end of time.

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  Tags in Amazing, Time

• Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.

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  Tags in Beautiful, Human, Honest

• Every role varies greatly, just as emotions vary greatly.

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  Tags in Greatly, Role

• I had the benefit of experiencing a hundred times more than the average kid. I don’t look back with regret at all. It was the best life ever.

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  Tags in Best, Experiencing, Average

• Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience.

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  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Character, Trained, Develop

• I can’t sing. Definitely no ambition in that area.

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  Tags in Definitely, Ambitions

• I decided I’d never do a series again, but I was offered a pilot for a series through Eddy Murphy Productions, and that was the gig that got me Parker Lewis.

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  Tags in Decided, Again

• I got to do a whole slew of TV movies playing the bad guy, including an episode of Smallville. That would never have happened if I hadn’t done the Stand.

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  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Happened, Playing

• I like good stories. Quality products and character are what’s important. Even if the script isn’t that strong, if I challenge myself with a great character, I’ll go for it.

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  Tags in Good, Great, Important

• I did private study for about a month, five days a week, six hours a day. I came to understand the character in ways that I never would’ve previous to that. I was so innocent in respect to ways of creating characters.

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  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Character, Private, Understand

• I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I’m not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character.

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  Tags in Character, Creating, Afraid

• I have not thought too much about the psychology or life of the character Jonas in some time.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Character, Thought

• I’d just gotten into Los Angeles from Texas, where I live, and the phone rang and it was the guy calling about the Willie Nelson video. I was totally excited about it.

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  Tags in Excited, Live, Totally

• I very rarely get nervous as an actor. Very rarely.

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  Tags in Actor, Rarely, Nervous

• I try to find what is closest to me in the character. There’s many sides to personality, but it’s a matter of, do you entertain those specific areas of your personality, or are you afraid to entertain them?

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Character, Matter, Afraid

• I pitched a storyline, and as far as I know it’s been picked up. It’s for the third and final episode I’m contracted to do. But I can’t give any spoilers.

  Corin Nemec

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Episode, Final

• I’ve done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I’ve compiled a book of poetry that’s completed, and two others I’m working on.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry, Completed, Number

• It is a Modern day, and these times need Modern solutions to Modern problems.

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  Tags in Problems, Solutions

• In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Acting

• It has given me an insight into what it’s like as an actor to come into a show in the middle of a production and fit into a group that’s already established.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Already, Middle, Actor

Corin Nemec (27)

Birth:	5th November, 1971
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Corin "Corky" Nemec was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. He is an American actor. Nemec is known for playing the title character on Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Jonas Quinn on Stargate SG-1, and Harold Lauder in the ABC miniseries The Stand. His first major film role was Tucker: The Man and His Dream in 1988.  He appeared in several TV shows, earning an Emmy nomination for his portrayal of Steven Stayner in the television film I Know My First Name Is Steven. He starred alongside with legendary actors Jack Palance, Peter Boyle and Charlton Heston in the 1990 feature film Solar Crisis.

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