Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
I enjoy the art, and I enjoy drawing. I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book.
I have jobs that I've preferred more than others simply because I've gotten to meet and make friends with great people. I've pulled at least one very close friend from every project I've done.
My mother always tells me, 'Nathan, you're very much a geek, but your strength is that you look mainstream. So no one can tell just by looking at you. ' I think this is true.
Somebody once said that you can never act and be another person; you're only acting facets of yourself. I think there's a lot of truth in that.
I always wanted to be an actor, but in Edmonton, Alberta, that's not a success-oriented career. So I said, 'I'll get my (teaching) degree and then I'll see what happens, but I'll always have that to fall back on. ' So if anybody were to look at me and say, 'Oh, you're an actor,' I could always say, 'Hey man, I'm a teacher!'
It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.
A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.
The mind I love must have wild places.
And when things start to go wrong, a good boss doesn't just fire everybody and start over.
So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on.