You go to a theater, you're in a darkened room, and you watch someone that you don't really know how many children they have or what their father's nickname might be; you don't have references and databases and rumors and half-truths - you're just transported by their storytelling.

Adrien Brody

Adrien Brody

Truth You Watch

My nickname is Saffy.

Aimee Osbourne

Nickname Nick Nic

Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.

Alan Alda

Wit Well Very

I have no nickname, as there has never been any need for one.

Alan Bennett

T Nickname Nick

I have dark skin. My nickname is El Negro. They call me El Negro in Mexico because even in my country, the dark skin is evidence of Indian blood, a sign that one technically belongs to a third class. Even my grandmother had some kind of differentiation with me, because I was darker than my siblings.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Wit Use Us

In the White House, Obama was driven around in an armored Cadillac limo nicknamed 'The Beast.' In 'Hope Never Dies,' he blows his book deal advance on 'The Little Beast,' a black Cadillac Escalade upgraded with military-grade armor and shocks so good 'you can drive over a land mine and not spill your tea.'

Andrew Shaffer

Hope Good Your

Every one called me scruffy, a scratter, that's what they used to call me. I was known as that. Scratter was the nickname.

Angela Rayner

Very Used Use

My school, we affectionately nicknamed it Avonjail, but it was called Avondale, Avondale high school in Stockport. I left with no GCSEs above a D.

Angela Rayner

Wit Von T

My parents never gave me a nickname. But for my friends, I am everything from 'Nushki' to 'Nusheshwar.'

Anushka Sharma

War Very Us

My stepfather's nickname for me was Squarehead.

Ashley Walters

T Stepfather Step

OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known.

Bill Gates

Family William Will

My nickname is 100 percent fan-based. It's not like one day I said, 'Hey, I want to be named Country Breakfast.'

Billy Butler

Want UN Try

Bitty was a nickname. When I became an actress I kept it. It's the only thing that went with Schram!

Bitty Schram

Wit Thing Thin

Most people in Iceland are blonde and blue-eyed. I was nicknamed 'China girl' in school 'cos they thought I looked Asian.

Bjork

Thought Though Thou

My real name is Nils and Booboo is a childhood nickname. It's not two words or two capital B's, it's B-o-o-b-o-o.

Booboo Stewart

Words Word Two

I guess if the president of the United States gives you a nickname, you have to stick with it.

Brad Marchand

You Wit United States

We have a social media background screening that you've got to go through and if you have a social media nickname or something on your Twitter account that makes me sick, I'm not going to recruit you.

Bret Bielema

Your You Wit

I went to USC. I wasn't a rich kid or anything like that, so I had to get a scholarship. Went to USC; my first year, I took 26 units, so I got to have a nickname. Everyone goes, 'There's 26.' So I had a nickname. Having a nickname is a good thing because then you start to get popular, and you keep that going.

Brian Grazer

Good Art You

Carrot Top is a nickname that people call me and I thought that it was more marketable.

Carrot Top

Car Top Thought

I love Monet - I've nicknamed him King Blob. When you go up to the painting, it's a series of blobs - amazing.

Celia Imrie

Love Amazing You

I think President Obama is not progressive. And I know a lot of people hate to hear that; it breaks their heart. But that's the reality. It's not in his nature. His nature is pro-establishment. If he had a wrestling nickname, it would be The Establishment.

Cenk Uygur

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.

Charles Eastman

Nicknames are the most essential in life, more valuable than names.

Chespirito

As a teenager, I used to use the nickname 'Moo' as a moniker online, and then I turned into 'Moot' for fun, which I didn't even realize was a real word at the time, and it just stuck with me.

Christopher Poole

CJ is my nickname. It stands for Cameron, and my middle name is John.

CJ Adams

I got the nickname T-Rex when I was 11 years old. Back when I was younger, I was very skinny and I had short arms, but I used to always be swinging.

Claressa Shields

My nickname senior year was 'ugly duckling.'

Colton Underwood

I'm not a big nickname guy.

Connor McDavid

I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, 'Iron to the Fire.' I like to keep several things going at once.

Creed Bratton

My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'

Dane Cook

My nickname is Deb for people who really know me. But the only real nickname I've ever had was, my dad used to call me 'Ace.'

Deborah K. Ross

I had to make a name up, and it came from one of my sisters; she was a fan of Frankie Laine. The 'Denny' thing, in those days, everyone had a backyard, and a den to hang out. I think I got that nickname there.

Denny Laine

I thought it was pretty good to be mentioned in a big paper, so I decided to keep the nickname.

Dick Lane

I especially enjoyed some of the old hairstyles, with my hair down to my shoulders and a beard. And Henley's nickname used to be 'Furry Basketball' because he had that fro. It was fun to just look at what was going on in that era and how we presented ourselves on stage.

Don Felder

No one knows exactly when I got the nickname Doro, but I've been called that as long as anyone can remember.

Dorothy Bush Koch

For as long as I can remember, my nickname was Dusty. I remember my dad naming me that because of the streets where we lived.

Dusty Rhodes

One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.

Earl Monroe

I don't have a nickname. But, hey, they can call me what they want - The Silent Assassin, The Underground King. In Japan, they call me American Knuckle Star. Call me what you want.

Eddie Alvarez

When I was on 'Haven,' my nickname was 'Sasquatch.'

Edge

I do have a nickname with my family; I'm called Snappy, because I do get to be a bit snippy at times. They call me Snappy Bear. That's from New Hampshire. My dad's called Crazy, my mother's Happy - it's a whole thing.

Eliza Coupe

My nickname was Skinabo - 'skin and bones.'

Ellen Barkin

I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.

Ellen Page

Mini-LeBron... I guess it's a cool nickname.

Eric Bledsoe

'The Devil in the White City' - the 'White City' was the nickname for the World's Fair of 1893, the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

Erik Larson

Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.

Ernie Harwell

My nickname is Esta Bell.

Ester Dean

There's nothing more frustrating than when fans use a nickname. That's like people you don't know using names from people that you're intimate with. Like if my mom has a nickname and a fan finds it out and starts using it, that's creepy.

Evangeline Lilly

I made the first Feist album in '98. So at that point, it was my nickname. It was as far as with my circle of friends, and just felt more accurate than two names.

Feist

Twigs has been my nickname for years, and I guess a lot of people close to me called me Twigs, like, as a nickname. Before I even did dancing properly or anything, like, substantially creative, I was still Twigs.

FKA twigs

I actually had a nickname as a player myself. When I played high school football in Texas, strong safety, they called me Choo Choo because they said I hit like a train.

Gabriel Luna