Leonardo Nam Quotes

(on auditioning for Roy in The Perfect Score) What happened was I read the casting sides, and I thought, this guy`s kind of like he`s always doing something - his focus seems to be somewhere else. He`s kind of misunderstood. This guy`s really smart, his focus is really wide. Most people focus on one thing, he focuses on so much that when someone`s talking to him he`s listening but it seems like he`s not. So I thought, what`s the most inappropriate thing to be doing while you`re breaking in to steal the answers? You know what? I bet this guy`s hungry. I bet he`s gonna whip out a sandwich. Not even gonna think about the consequences, I`m just gonna eat. The audition was running an hour late or something so I was so f---ing hungry. I had a sandwich in my bag. So I took one bite and you know how you take that first bite and it`s SO good. Then the guy says we`re ready for you to come in. So now I am so hungry. I`m wondering what am I gonna do? So I went in there and I thought, I`m gonna start eating my sandwich. It`s what I had planned to do. Next thing you know, I`m flying off to Paramount. How f---ed up is that?

(on acting in Austrailia) I was studying with this lady and I`d go to see these producers and I`d read for them or whatever and they`d all be like, `You`re great... but we don`t have anything for you.` I`d always be like the takeaway kid from the Chinese food store even though I`m Korean. Go figure. That kind of thing still happens here in the movies and stuff but at a much more extreme micro-scale. That`s what Australian film and TV was like. It was before Fox moved over and The Matrix was there so I kind of had to go through my own right of passage. One day she told me, `I`ve booked you an audition in New York.` Next thing I knew, I was stepping off a plane and it just felt right.