Nicholas Brendon Quotes

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

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• 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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• My brain is just always going and going and going.

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• Look, I know what it feels like to believe you’re ‘different’ in a bad way.

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• 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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• I’ve had to work on being a slow talker.

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• 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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• I played baseball in college but I didn’t identify with the jocks, I was in my own little world .

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

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

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• 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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• 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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• I will always have a stutter.

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

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Birth:	12th April, 1971
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

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