#nick

I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I did a stand-up comedy camp at the Laugh Factory, and I started out on Nickelodeon. ↗

— Amanda Bynes

#camp #comedy #did #doing #factory

I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself. ↗

— Rose Byrne

#get #i #know #myself #out

Maybe they notice me wincing whenever I hear them say it, but I don't know: there are all sorts of reasons I could be wincing. Life is a wince-a-thon. ↗

— Frank Portman

#cringe #high-school #nickname #wince #life

When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

#front #give #give me #grandfather #him

I've taken my knickers off. My friends told me my panty line was visible, so I went without. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#i #knickers #line #me #off

My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.' ↗

— Dane Cook

#mom #nickname

Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's nickname for me is 'red alert.' I sometimes check just to see if the kids are breathing. But I try not to be a helicopter parent. ↗

— Matt Damon

#been #breathing #check #ever #helicopter

In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios. ↗

— Snoop Dogg

#certain #culture #forever #given #i

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#characteristic #deed #either #given #indian

Jack Nicklaus liked to curve the ball by opening or closing the clubface at address. I never felt I was good enough to do it his way. I didn't like changing my swing path, either, which some guys do. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#ball #changing #closing #curve #either