Top 30 Nicholas Hammond Quotes

What I like most about the series is that the stories deal 75 percent of the time with the problems of Peter Parker, a normal, unremarkable young man when he isn’t out fighting crime.

What with ‘The Brady Bunch,’ ‘Spider-Man’ and ‘Sound of Music,’ I have three cults going.

I had no intention of becoming an actor.

I don’t like to go any longer than two years without appearing on stage.

There is something about being able to look at this family on the film where a woman drops out of the sky, magically makes their father happy, makes the children happy, gives them all a purpose. And with great courage, they overcome a tyrannical dictator and go on to a happy, wonderful life.

My entire life‘s journey has been hugely influenced by seeing Julie Andrews.

When you‘re very famous, very young, there’s that little thing of, ‘Are they being nice to me because they think I’m a nice person? Or is it because they want to tell their friends ‘Guess who I was with last night?’

I had a crush on Liesl – Charmian – she was so beautiful. God, those wonderful, beautiful blue eyes. I was so much younger than her, I was 13, she was 20, a grown up. I adored her.

My agent advised me to quit the business. He told me that if I continued acting I was facing a few bad years and probably wouldn’t work very much.

The first day of the shoot, I had been in my trailer and came out dressed as Peter Parker in his slightly daggy corduroy jacket with his camera around his neck. Almost instantly, 500 or more people just stopped and started to watch us. They were calling out my name, calling out, ‘Peter’ or ‘Spidey’.

I’ve always been aware of ‘Spiderman’ on the newsstands, but I never followed the comics with any great zeal, probably because I’ve spent most of my conscious life as an actor and just never found the time for comic books.

Plans for a Spider-Man film had gone on for so long. It was starting to look like there would never be a film. There was always a different actor, or a different director they were talking about.

For the two or three weeks you work on an episode, you totally immerse yourself.

I did have a sense of parental pride in that character. For 20 years now my films and the TV show have been the only version of Peter Parker. So I wanted this new version, for a new generation, to be really good. I still care about it.

They were looking for boys who could speak with an English accent for the movie ‘Lord of the Flies.’ I had been abroad enough so I knew that accent.

TV companies always eat, pretty good.

I’ve wanted to do a series for a long time, to see what it feels like to carry the whole responsibility of a show like that.

There’s a myth on the Internet that I’m afraid of heights. I don’t know where that came from, but it isn ‘t true.

I have done a couple of musicals myself over the years but have never done a Stephen Schwartz show, and I never thought I would be writing one.

When you think about it, a trial is not really about what the truth is, it’s about which barrister is better at persuading those 12 people to believe their story.

People don’t gather for martinis at 5 P. M. any more.

Whenever you’re in a show that has a lot of special effects, there is a large margin for error.

I got a message that Quentin Tarantino would like to meet me, that he was a Spider-Man fan and wanted to talk about playing Peter Parker. We had a general chat, a nerdy conversation about Hollywood in the 1960s and 1970s.

You wouldn’t want to hear me sing now.

Christopher Plummer showed this 14-year-old aspiring actor what acting really was. I idolized him as my film father, he was my role model for the years that followed.

It never ceases to amaze me. I’ll be in a bank and I think the person staring at me is going to say, ‘I saw you in ‘Flying Doctors,’ or whatever. But instead they say, ‘You’re from ‘The Sound of Music.’

They make about three mini-series a year in Australia and then they put two of them up against each other!

I started it all, I created the role of Peter Parker.

You can do a show with lots of storylines. You can cram it with issues. People will keep up.

It’s a great challenge to me, playing someone who is supposed to be absolutely normal and not remarkable and contemporary and yet at the same time does have a lot of fantastic power. As an actor it’s a great challenge to bring reality to that.