Quotes by Craig T. Nelson

About Craig T. Nelson:

Craig Theodore Nelson is an American actor and former comedian. He is best known for his Emmy-winning role as Hayden Fox on the TV series Coach, Deputy Ward Wilson in the 1980 film Stir Crazy, Steven Freeling in the 1982 film Poltergeist, the Warden in My Name is Earl, and Mr. Incredible in the 2004 film The Incredibles. He also starred in the TV series Parenthood.
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The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

Craig T. Nelson

When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

Craig T. Nelson

I mean, a lot of my family are teachers.

Craig T. Nelson

I really wanted to do 'Modern Family,' and I really liked the script, and I liked the people.

Craig T. Nelson

The beauty of 'Parenthood' is that it's a blue-collar working family, and it reflects attitudinal shifts that occur within people and families.

Craig T. Nelson

I want to see my kids grow up in a world that I grew up in, which was it had imagination and it had hope. And all of a sudden, I see that being dissolved, and I see, as a country, as a people, we are a republic. We are a democracy.

Craig T. Nelson

I had a '56 Ford, and my first car was a '49 Chevy. I converted it to a stick and used to race with the other high school kids down along the river.

Craig T. Nelson

When you're doing Sebring in the back straight at 185 or 187, and the car's moving, you gotta know what to do with it, how to read it. Just the science of understanding shocks - forget spring rates - is mind-boggling.

Craig T. Nelson

I really want to drive a Porsche GT1 car - also a McLaren, if I could fit. I want to do LeMans badly. I want to do Spa, a European series with World SportsCars.

Craig T. Nelson

I've been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No. No. They gave me hope, and they gave me encouragement, and they gave me a vision. That came from my education.

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Education to me is the most important thing that we've got going in this country. I mean, a lot of my family are teachers. I was the recipient of a great public education, and I see that's one of the first things that we're going to go, 'What are we ...

Craig T. Nelson

I worry about making work more important than what I know to be the truth. Throughout all areas of life, we're told how to look, how to act, what to speak, what to wear, what we should have and other people don't have, and we know none of that means ...

Craig T. Nelson

I love going to work.

Craig T. Nelson

You can only do so much grunting and groaning and then you're done, you know?

Craig T. Nelson

They're just not into doing sequels after Toy Story so I don't think that's a possibility. But if they did, well sure, you'd have to do it. And I'd want to do it.

Craig T. Nelson

Lance Armstrong is the guy that I would put up there as one of my heroes. He's done something that no one else has done and when you put into it what he overcame, it's absolutely unbelievable.

Craig T. Nelson

I lost my parents when I was fairly young.

Craig T. Nelson

My youngest son is a writer. He wrote for 'The District' and 'CSI: NY.'

Craig T. Nelson

No one is accountable anymore for anything.

Craig T. Nelson

If people are going to watch TV, let's give them something coherent with actual dialogue.

Craig T. Nelson

Author Bio

  • NameCraig T. Nelson
  • DescriptionAmerican actor
  • AliasesCraig Theodore Nelson
  • BornApril 4, 1944
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor