A biography for Nicholas Hammondhasn’t been written yet.
“When I came to California, the first four parts I did were Stanford students. I think I should get an honorary degree from them.”
“Austria was the last country in Europe to ever put the stage show of 'The Sound of Music' on.”
“They make about three mini-series a year in Australia and then they put two of them up against each other!”
“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.”
“Whenever you're in a show that has a lot of special effects, there is a large margin for error.”
“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 know the von Trapps well. I've known them for many years and they are very reluctant to let anybody on to their property or to let anybody film them. They are constantly getting requests from all around the world to do shows about them or having news stories done and they're very private people.”
“I didn't see a difference between Spider-Man and Peter Parker, to be honest with you. Peter Parker is always Peter Parker. When he's Spider-Man, he's still Peter Parker, no matter how he's dressed.”
“It's very nice when you're checking onto a flight and the person behind the desk suddenly upgrades your seat for you and then hands you back the boarding pass and says, 'It's my favorite movie.'”
“She can be Mary Poppins but she can also be - I would never use the word 'crude' in the same sentence as Julie Andrews because she is so fine and beautiful - but she can be naughty and she doesn't mind a good joke.”
“The genius of Rodgers and Hammerstein is that their songs become a part of the DNA of the audience.”
“I don't like to go any longer than two years without appearing on stage.”
“I was the very first Spider-Man, and it was cool to be him.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“He can't have any friends and maintain his secret identity as Spider-Man. He can't even have a normal sex life. He's a national hero, yet he's a recluse. He's instantly recognized by the public, but he cant tell anyone who he is.”