Quotes by Nolan North - Page 1

I revel in my anonymity. But when I'm at a specific event and gamers are there, they'll recognise me.
Nolan North / Actor
Anonymity
Recognise
Event
Gamers
Specific
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I know a lot of games have been going to the facial capture. And movies like 'TinTin' are using it, as well.
Nolan North / Actor
Capture
Facial
Games
Wells
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'Uncharted' is the best job I've ever had. Film, television, whatever - it's without doubt the best. It's changed my life.
Nolan North / Actor
Uncharted
Life Best My Life
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Of all the games I've done, the only time I've ever lost my voice was on 'Call Of Duty 2,' playing a rasping Russian captain on the Stalingrad level.
Nolan North / Actor
Only Time
Captain
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I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the same - although with videogames it requires a lot of imagination.
Nolan North / Actor
Imagination
Actors
Cameras
Microphone
Requires
Videogames
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I've always had a penchant for dialects. I remember getting detention and being told, 'Have a think about where doing these funny voices might get you someday.'
Nolan North / Actor
Detention
Someday
Dialects
Voices
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Harrison Ford has always been one of my favorite actors. I grew up with Han Solo and Indiana Jones, and 'Regarding Henry' is one of my favorite movies of all time.
Nolan North / Actor
Indiana
Solo
Time Movies Always
Favorite Movies
Ford
Harrison Ford
Indiana Jones
Regarding
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There was a time when all the actors were saying, 'We should get residuals on videogames.' I just kept going, 'You don't have any idea what goes into making a game, do you?'
Nolan North / Actor
Videogames
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I am a person who believes in the good of people and who may have had things influence them to a certain degree, but deep down I think most people are good and would like to be good.
Nolan North / Actor
Believe
Deep Down
People
Thinking
Believes
Certain Degree
Degree
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I eventually became an actor, starting with doing stand-up comedy in New York and then theater wherever they would let me. Finally, I moved out here to Los Angeles and got on a show.
Nolan North / Actor
Los Angeles
Stand Up Comedy
Me Doing New
Angeles
Finally
Los
Out Here
Wherever
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One thing that's unique to 'Uncharted' is something called 'chasing picture,' where Naughty Dog run a section of gameplay and I'm allowed to ad-lib over it. We call it 'panning for gold.'
Nolan North / Actor
Chasing
Dog
Gold
Naughty
One Thing
Over It
Uncharted
Unique
Picture
Allowed
Call
Run
Section
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The tailor from 'Avatar' actually made my suit for 'Uncharted 3.' And no, it's not a hand-me-down from Sam Worthington. My 11-year-old would fit in Sam Worthington's. I'm 6' 1", 180 pounds.
Nolan North / Actor
Pounds
Uncharted
Avatar
Sam
Suit
Tailor
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The really best acting is children in a playground or in a backyard. They're just lost in their imagination. The backyard isn't a pirate ship or a jungle, in the same way that the soundstage isn't Shambala.
Nolan North / Actor
Jungle
Pirate
Backyard
Playground
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There's something known as the Uncanny Valley where things look a little too real and you're not quite sure what you're looking at. It becomes weird like it did in 'The Polar Express,' where the eyes seem so realistic, and yet you know it's animated.
Nolan North / Actor
Animated
Realistic
Express
Polar
Valley
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Because Naughty Dog relies on their facial team to hand animate the faces of each game character and they do such a remarkable job, I think you can be more realistic with your acting. It gives the story and what's happening to you the feeling that it's a game.
Nolan North / Actor
Dog
Faces
Naughty
Realistic
Remarkable
Animate
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My first motion capture game was with Sony - NBA: The Life. It was very ahead of its time. Brandon Akiaten, he was the writer and director. He had a real vision of what this game was meant to be; it was a basketball game where I was the Jerry Maguire sports agent type guy. And it was great!
Nolan North / Actor
Sports
Basketball
Real
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My first motion capture game was with Sony - 'NBA: The Life.' It was very ahead of its time. Brandon Akiaten, he was the writer and director. He had a real vision of what this game was meant to be; it was a basketball game where I was the Jerry Maguire sports agent type guy. And it was great!
Nolan North / Actor
Basketball
Capture
Meant To Be
Nba
Sony
Life Time Great
Agent
Ahead
Motion
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I don't think there's room in video games for people to bring an ego. It's very frustrating for any actor to have someone who's a celebrity take over your place. Like the 'Uncharted' film, they're trying to find someone to play Nathan Drake. And it's like, why do they not think of us? We do this.
Nolan North / Actor
Frustrating
Uncharted
Video
Drake
Video Games
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I studied journalism at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. I did my graduate work at Emerson in Boston, and I was actually a reporter for a year in New York and New Jersey. It dawned on me that I wasn't cut out for that line of work. I mean... there's a certain thing that really good reports have that I just didn't.
Nolan North / Actor
Boston
Carolina
Chapel
Chapel Hill
Jersey
Journalism
New Jersey
North Carolina
Work Good Me
Studied
Dawned
Reporter
Emerson
Graduate
Hill
North
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I don't think 'Call Of Duty: Black Ops' sells 25 million plus copies and makes of a billion dollars because of their great storytelling. It's the multiplayer aspect of that type of game, where people get together to shoot each other and have fun. And it's very much gameplay; it's like 'Gran Turismo' or one of these racing games.
Nolan North / Actor
Aspect
Copies
Dollars
Get Together
Plus
Racing
Sells
Storytelling
Billion
Billion Dollars
Have Fun
Shoot
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When we did the first 'Uncharted,' we weren't able to capture the audio with the performances. We would go back and do A.D.R. - Automated Dialogue Replacement - in which you would hear yourself and then repeat your line. Even when we were doing that, there was a slight disconnect because you were trying to recreate a performance.
Nolan North / Actor
Audio
Capture
Dialogue
Uncharted
Yourself Your Doing
Automated
Disconnect
Yourself Doing Your
Hear
Performance
Line
Recreate
Repeat
Slight
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In 'Uncharted,' we do the scenes the same way you would do a film or television show. The motion capture - the performance-capture process - is what makes such a difference for this franchise. So I don't approach it any differently. The other actors and I go in and rehearse scenes together, and then we go in the next day and perform.
Nolan North / Actor
Capture
Uncharted
Franchise
Motion
Rehearse
Television Show
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I've found a lot of the thinking in America is that a lot of people become actors to become famous. At least from my experience, I have a dozen or so British friends who are actors, and if you look at their body of work, and they'll go do theatre, and they'll go do this and this. They work, and they're always honing and trying to be better.
Nolan North / Actor
Dozen
Honing
Theatre
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I'm proud of the versatility I've had since I was in high school, getting in trouble for all these voices. What happened was that there were so many of these big heroes I played - in 'Dark Void,' 'Assassin's Creed,' 'Shadow Complex,' 'Uncharted,' and 'Prince of Persia' - and they all showed up at about the same time. It got a little ridiculous.
Nolan North / Actor
Persia
Shadow
Uncharted
Versatility
Heroes
Assassin
Complex
Creed
Voices
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