Quotes by Nicholas Brendon

About Nicholas Brendon:

Nicholas Brendon is an American actor and writer. He is best known for playing Xander Harris in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003) and Kevin Lynch in Criminal Minds (2007–present). Since 2014 he has been writing on the Buffy Season 10 comic book.
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I will always have a stutter.

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My brain is just always going and going and going.

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

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

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

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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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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've had to work on being a slow talker.

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Author Bio

  • NameNicholas Brendon
  • Descriptionactor
  • BornApril 12, 1971
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Television Actor