Nicholas Lea Quotes

I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.

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.

It makes you realize that people are the same wherever you go.

Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.

I'm living in L.A. but my heart's in Vancouver.

And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.

My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands.

It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.

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.

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.

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.

When you're doing a series like this, you're constantly looking for new ways to excite your audience.

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

When I'm on my deathbed, I'll hopefully be able to count more friends than parts that I had.

I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth.

Two shows at once is crazy, but I love it.

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.

I just wanted to act. I didn't want to do anything else.

Certainly, when I walk into an audition, a lot of people already know who I am.

At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming.

I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.

L.A. to me is not really an attractive place.

There's one site where you can buy pictures of me for five bucks a pop.

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.

Everything has an end.

I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian.

We both have a great loyalty to it, and I think that it's important to give it our best shot.

It's not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it.

My sister is a nurse and saves people's lives.

I don't care what TV show you work on, even a movie for that matter, it's all about time and money eventually.

I felt that K wasn't getting a fair shake anyway.

I would like to look back on my career and be proud of what I've done.

My heritage is English, so I'm proud to be back here.