Nick Castle Quotes

When I was in MTV, I wasn't really looking out to do films.

I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.

I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself.

I started out as a musician. Although I always wanted to have a dual career, I fell into the TV and movie business more strongly and more quickly.

I took a break from doing music to concentrate on acting.

I was a dancer for about 20 years. It didn't really help me transition into music.

I had several offers to act in films. But I rejected all of them and decided to plunge into politics.

Law became boring, but like every job I've done, it helped prepare me for a career in music.

I started out doing commercials, like Diet Coke and Pizza Hut. And I started to find there was a different life for me, in a different field. From there, I got a call from a director in Italy, and we did 'Indio' I and II, and that's where it started.

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.

I was more interested in playing sports than acting. I didn't take acting too seriously until the end of my junior year.

After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.

I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.

I was in Hiroshima with my assistant, and I said to him, 'You know, I've done close to a thousand shows with Yes. I think I'm done. I don't think I can do another one.' I went back to L.A. and left the band and got into film.

If I could really move my career much more into predominantly directing, I would jump at that.

In 2000, I realized I had reached that certain age when the parts get scarcer. So I decided to try my hand at directing.

I had been in a band in college. You kind of need to make a choice between going the music route or going the acting route. I chose acting, figuring I could always do the music on my own.

When we moved to L.A., I started going out for more commercials, and then one day they emailed me a movie script. The first thing I said was, 'No way. I love commercials.'

I quit doing the movies because the wrestling was going so good and was so on fire during the '80s and '90s, but I was getting all these movie scripts.

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.

I don't see myself doing catalog shoots in Madrid anymore like I was doing two years ago. I hope that the acting side of things grows.

I started my career as an actor, but I've been a director for 15 years now.

Suddenly I was writing a lot of screenplays, and I was no long in New York, so I stopped acting in plays, and it just became too tricky to find a part to play, either in a play or a film that coincided with my schedule writing and or directing.

Actually, I went from doing a lot of movies early on in my career, then to doing TV, and I don't know whether we'll get back to some movies or not.

I did 'Spanglish' and went back home, and the next thing I did was my high school play. My agents at the time were like, 'Uh. What?'