Top 38 Quotes & Sayings by Nicholas Lea

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian actor Nicholas Lea.
Last updated on November 18, 2024.
Nicholas Lea

Nicholas Lea is a Canadian actor known for his portrayal of Alex Krycek on The X-Files and of Tom Foss on Kyle XY.

You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.
At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming.
My sister is a nurse and saves people's lives. — © Nicholas Lea
My sister is a nurse and saves people's lives.
Certainly, when I walk into an audition, a lot of people already know who I am.
I would like to look back on my career and be proud of what I've done.
It changed my life in a lot of ways - before I got that role I was just going from job to job, not really having enough money to be able to do what I wanted to do.
So, I completely and utterly support David and Gillian's decision to go to Los Angeles, but I think that Vancouver is the perfect location for the show.
I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian.
There's one site where you can buy pictures of me for five bucks a pop.
My heritage is English, so I'm proud to be back here.
Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.
It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go.
L.A. to me is not really an attractive place. — © Nicholas Lea
L.A. to me is not really an attractive place.
When you're doing a series like this, you're constantly looking for new ways to excite your audience.
I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.
I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth.
I just wanted to act. I didn't want to do anything else.
I've spent so much time the last seven, eight years in Los Angeles, away from my family, away from my friends, away from the city that is my favourite place to be and I just want to come here and have a proper life.
That's sort of what I like about this character is that he's not the good guy, he's not truly the bad guy.
We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.
We both have a great loyalty to it, and I think that it's important to give it our best shot.
I felt that K wasn't getting a fair shake anyway.
When I'm on my deathbed, I'll hopefully be able to count more friends than parts that I had.
I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.
Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.
It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy.
It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity. — © Nicholas Lea
It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.
I'm living in L.A. but my heart's in Vancouver.
I don't care what TV show you work on, even a movie for that matter, it's all about time and money eventually.
Everything has an end.
And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.
Two shows at once is crazy, but I love it.
I really enjoy the people. I find them to be better educated and wittier.
It's not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it.
My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands.
It changed my life in a lot of ways - before I got that role I was just going form job to job, not really having enough money to be able to do what I wanted to do.
It makes you realize that people are the same wherever you go. — © Nicholas Lea
It makes you realize that people are the same wherever you go.
I've spent so much time the last seven, eight years in Los Angeles, away from my family, away from my friends, away from the city that is my favorite place to be and I just want to come here and have a proper life.
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