Nick Searcy

“If you ask me what 'Runaway Jury' is about, it's about this guy named Doyle who runs around and bugs people's apartments. All this other stuff, I'm not interested in.”

“The bigger films, the pace of them is different and the size and scope of them is different. But some of the smaller independent films the pace is very similar to television. I think I actually prefer the pace of television. You get more done in a day, it keeps you more focused.”

“Fried Green Tomatoes' is the first time I got to play a character with some depth and some complexity.”

“It's my philosophy, when you are doing a TV series, I think it's better off the closer you can make the character to yourself.”

“There are a million reasons why you might not get a part. You may look like someone's brother-in-law that they don't like. There may have been times I have lost a role because someone doesn't want a 'right-wing maniac' on set. I'm not going to worry about it.”

“I'm just gonna be myself, say what I think and do what I believe. And if it costs me, it costs me.”

“I'll say the communist 'Antifa' is bad, and they'll twist it to say, 'Nick Searcy defended Nazis.'”

“Nick Fear was just a ridiculous name I'd been kicking around when thinking about writing some detective stories.”

“Sometimes on a big feature film it seems to take far, far longer to do things than it should.”

“The day Andrew Breitbart died. It hit me: How long do I have, and what am I afraid of? I realized that I have but a very brief time on this planet. Am I really going to spend it not saying what I believe and being who I am?”

“It is quite common for actors to think that every job they get could be their last.”

“It's never been safe to declare you're not a Democrat.”

“Trump didn't say some nice people were Nazis; he said there are some nice people who don't want monuments torn down.”

“I've played a lot of tough guys in movies over the years, but you know what? Looking cool and saying lines that somebody else wrote for me doesn't make me a real tough guy any more than looking cool and reading lines off the teleprompter that somebody else wrote makes a community organizer a real leader.”

“Six years of 'Justified' was a great pleasure and just a gift from God to have a project that was that good and that lasted that long.”

“There is an underserved audience out there, an audience who wants to see truthful movies about serious issues and does not want to be told what to think by sermonizing, patronizing, or condescending filmmakers.”

“A black man who is conservative can be a very big target on the left.”

“I know people have feelings. That's why I try to hurt them.”

“If you're able to appeal to a broader market, you can make an entertaining narrative film. Whereas a documentary is something that only a very dedicated number of people are interested in.”

“I think I was attracted to Trump because he was a business man first. He isn't a politician. He spoke with common sense and he was fearless.”