Nicholas Hammond

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

“What's amazing is everyone knows who Spider-Man is. We were filming in a Chicano community and standing side by side were a Cal Tech lab technician and a six-year-old boy, and both of them were in awe of the character. In fact, you might say he's an equal opportunity fantasy hero.”

“There's a funny kind of family thing that happens with every production.”

“I had no intention of becoming an actor.”

“Firstly, I prefer to think of him as Peter Parker. Spiderman is kind of the tool he uses to go undercover as he's trying to help out the police.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“People don't gather for martinis at 5 P. M. any more.”

“Now I've been embraced by the real von Trapps. Those eight months I spent on that film set have been a gift for the rest of my life.”

“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.”

“I'm safer being with someone more famous than me.”

“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.”

“Ted Danson was wonderful, years before 'Cheers.'”

“I went through the whole student revolution thing and the last thing you wanted was people to think you were Friedrich von Trapp.”

“You wouldn't want to hear me sing now.”

“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.”

“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.'”

“My family was in England on the night that she was doing her final performance of 'My Fair Lady' with Rex Harrison. The show was brilliant and Julie was just phenomenal.”