Top 40 Nick Frost Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I like to think I’m some savage realist.”

— Nick Frost

2. “I always think I could play a fantastic psychopath. I’d like to play a psycho. With a heart, you know. A caring lunatic.”

— Nick Frost

3. “The zeitgeist is ever-changing. If you try second guess what people want, you’ll miss it.”

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4. “I love working. I feel guilty about doing nothing; I get bored.”

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5. “I’m a work in progress, and I hope I will never be complete.”

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6. “I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school.”

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7. “Missions: The Word of God from the heart of God to the heart of man through a consecrated, dedicated, and pure vessel.”

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8. “I’m not good at meeting people, and I’m not good at small talk.”

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9. “I am a hard house freak and I don’t care who knows.”

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10. “It’s a very special thing when you go and get to work with your best friend every day.”

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11. “In 1994 while on weekend manoeuvres in France, I commandeered a Chieftain tank without permission of my immediate superiors. I then attempted to invade Paris. However, en route I stopped off at Disneyland, or Eurodisney as it was then called, and was subsequently apprehended on Space Mountain.”

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12. “I would be happy living on a massive ranch in Montana and not seeing anyone except my friends and family.”

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13. “God’s greatest tragedy is the creation of mankind.”

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14. “I volunteered on a farming community in Israel for two years when I was a teenager. One of the jobs involved clearing out a massive warehouse full of chickens ready for the abattoir. The smell of 40,000 chickens in 45C is awful.”

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15. “My wife’s brother has a little house on a small island in the Baltic Sea, and we go there at Christmas. The 30-minute crossing from the mainland to this island is the most terrifying cruise you’ll ever take. They give you a barf bag when you walk on board.”

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16. “As a kid, I wasn’t listening to The Who; I was listening to Frankie Knuckles.”

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17. “When I was younger, I jumped out of a moving car. I would do anything. Now, being a father and knowing the political state of the world, there are certain things which potentially could be religiously volatile that I would probably avoid, but not much.”

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18. “There’s a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.”

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19. “I love Twitter; I’m on Twitter quite a lot.”

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20. “I’m sure people would argue this, but I want to be different in everything I do. I don’t think I’ve been the same in anything I’ve done, and I want to keep that up.”

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21. “In the early 2000s, I was introduced to the noble art of kickboxing, it thrilled me, and I loved it. I loved the honour and the discipline, and I also loved the punching.”

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22. “It’s nice to have someone write a couture character for you.”

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23. “The older I get, the less I remember.”

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24. “I think some people see me as being some kind of lovable, bumbling buffoon, and I’m actually quite mouthy and sharp, and that doesn’t compute.”

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25. “One of my biggest disappointments is watching the trailer for the second Lord of the Rings film and having Gandalf in it. Why? He died in the first one, why give it away in the trailer just to try and sell 1000 more seats? It’s daft.”

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26. “My formative years were all about ‘Star Wars’ – the first three, not the last crap, obviously. I understood ‘Star Trek’ but it was too caricatured for me.”

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27. “My scripts are always heavily noted. If I can take a director to one side and say, “Do you mind if we try this?,” a few days before, that’s usually a better way of doing it then on the day.”

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28. “And remember, the people that you’ve seen here tonight are professionals, so please don’t try any of this at home, because you are ugly and hung like a hampster.”

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29. “People presume just because you’re a bigger bloke that you wouldn’t be physically fit or up for the fight, but that couldn’t be further from the truth.”

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30. “Smiley was the guy who made me realise that it was all right to succeed. No one had ever told me that. It was something I’d never considered before. That’s stayed with me ever since. It’s okay to succeed. I knew what it felt like to hurt and fail, those things were familiar to me. But the thought that I was allowed to succeed was something new and scary and something I needed to hear.”

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31. “I’d be happy doing anything on a film set.”

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32. “Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to succeed, and I realised that I knew what failure felt like, but I didn’t know what success felt like. I’ve carried that with me ever since.”

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33. “A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I’ve always been fairly funny.”

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34. “I don’t regret anything that I’ve turned down, and I don’t regret anything that I’ve done, really.”

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35. “Even though I didn’t write ‘Shaun Of The Dead’ and ‘Hot Fuzz,’ I never felt left out of the creative process.”

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36. “I fall in love with every film while I’m doing it. I fall in love with the directors, I fall in love with the process. I don’t think I could do it otherwise.”

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37. “I find acting tough, but sitting around chatting – that’s easy.”

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38. “I’d like to play the voice of the Iron in the Monopoly movie.”

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39. “I’m so thrilled to have been asked to guest in the Doctor Who Christmas Special, I’m such a fan of the show. The read-through was very difficult for me; I wanted to keep stuffing my fingers into my ears and scream ‘No spoilers!’ Every day on set I’ve had to silence my internal fan-boy squeals!”

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40. “I’m comedy’s forgotten nearly man.”

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41. “I would agree ‘Paul’ is a sci-fi genre movie. And a road movie.”

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42. “If you think about America, it is about getting your backpack on and heading out.”

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43. “I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But ’cause I left school at 15, I didn’t know what a noun was, still don’t.”

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44. “I don’t see the point of being an actor and doing the same thing, all the time. Where’s the challenge there?”

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45. “People are not going to like everything.”

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46. “The fight scenes in ‘The World’s End’ have a certain balletic quality to them.”

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