Top 52 Quotes & Sayings by Nelsan Ellis
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Nelsan Ellis.
Last updated on April 16, 2025.
I am a vampire/werewolf and sci-fi fanatic. God is so good! I get to play in a series that has all that!
My years at Thornridge probably changed the course of my life.
I love working with Alexander Skarsgard. He brings such gravity to a scene.
If you want to get married to a man, then get married to a man. If two women want to get married, they should get married. It's not hurting me.
It's hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students.
You go back to my town, it's like going back to the 1960s... just not a great place to grow up.
My idea of horses is from when I grew up on a farm. They were big, and they were dumb.
I was raised by women.
The arts are suffering amongst public schools, but also, minority theater companies are struggling, and I firmly believe in freedom of expression through the arts.
Alan Ball, he's good at challenging his actors, I'll say that.
When you're in a position that you can comfortably give, you need to pay it forward.
I was quiet. If I really wanted to say something, I would. I just wasn't interested in saying anything.
Although I can be a leading man, you wouldn't look at me and go, 'He's a leading man.'
I was quiet, and I was artistic. I liked writing poetry, and that was very strange, so I was bullied a lot.
I don't look anything like my mother, except when I'm Lafayette. I look like my father.
Anna Paquin is marvelous, and she brings so much experience to the table.
There are homophobic people in my family. They're deeply religious.
Fiona Shaw is a goddess to me.
When I moved to Chicago, I was coming from a school that didn't have any arts in Alabama. I essentially came from a town where the arts didn't exist and the desire for education didn't exist and wasn't valued.
When you deal with Alan Ball, you're dealing with a person who is a genius in terms of how art imitates life.
When I wanted to become a serious actor, this girl told me, 'You should go to Juilliard.' And I said, 'Okay.'
Everybody kept saying, 'I just don't know how to sell you.' I'm odd. I don't think you can put a finger on me.
Being different gives the world color.
You have to learn to not hate who you have to live with.
Boot camp was the first time I got a heavy dose of discipline. It was the best thing that ever happened to me.
I can play a doctor, and I can play a thug.
Being different makes you beautiful.
Let gay people get married.
When you act with phenomenal actors, it makes your job much easier because all you have to do is react.
At some point in my life, I wanted to be in a vampire movie.
'Interview with a Vampire' is my all-time favorite. I also loved 'An American Werewolf in London.'
I see a project, and I say I want to audition for it, and people let me audition for it. There's a lot to be grateful for.
There were not many black students at Juilliard, unfortunately. So when you get there, you become very good friends, in particular, with the other black students.
Domestic violence is an epidemic, and yet we don't address it. Until it happens to celebrities.
Whenever you have a character in which one of his defining qualities is his sexuality, it's always challenging, because you don't want to bring in someone who's going to play that in a phony way.
The beautiful thing about this country is that I can be a Christian and feel free to do so. Or somebody cannot be a Christian and do whatever that entails. Or somebody can be a Christian and still be gay, and I support it.
I'd always dabbled in acting.
You have to be a tough gay person in the South.
With 'True Blood,' you don't know what to expect. You don't know how wild it's gonna get.
I think, in this country, anybody can do whatever they want to do as long as it's not hurting anybody else or violating the laws of society.
Acting is the only thing that makes me happy.
But no one told me that when you're in the military, they own you.
I'm not an emotional person; I keep it in, and I wouldn't know how to get it out if it weren't for acting and writing.
I rejected being a lot of things that I grew up in, and yet I didn't. I got all my tactics from where I grew up... I can talk about all the people in those environments more than I can talk about the teachers at Juilliard or anyone else.
My mom's side, they're southern Baptist Christian.
I had no intention of being an actor.
The sci-fi fans in America... they are die-hard. They will follow you to the ends of the Earth. Once they attach themselves to a show and believe in the show and love the characters, they're there forever, and they're unshakeable.
I went from unknown to having no anonymity.
The ultimate part that I want to play in my life is Jimi Hendrix, so I guess I'm drawn to music even though I can't sing or dance very well.
I can't approach a character with judgment.
I empty myself out and fill myself with the character. I would play a devil worshipper, and I would fill myself up with whatever devil worshippers believe. Then, as myself, I empty that out and become Nelsan.
Rihanna and makeup gets me into LaLa Land.
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