Nick Offerman Net Worth

Nick Offerman's Quotes

• [on his role as Ron Swanson, the government-hating bureaucrat in Parks and Recreation (2009)] People have asked me if Ron would be a member of the Tea Party, and the answer is always that Ron is a committee of one, and regardless of what is going on in the country, he stands by his simple principles. If (he) had a campaign slogan it would be 'Paddle Your Own Canoe'.
• [re his one-man show 'American Ham'] I was invited to speak at some colleges. I didn't want to be so egotistical as to show up and say: 'Thank you for the tidy appearance fee. Please feast your eyes upon me.' So I wrote a show. I like to say that I am a more foulmouthed, less-educated Garrison Keillor.
• Something about stentorian authority figures has always made me laugh. I also noticed that lots of the performers I was working with had a big, obnoxious energy that I quickly realized I could never match - and that when they finally finished being loud, with one well-placed remark I could also achieve some sort of comic victory.
• [re his role in The Kings of Summer (2013)] It evokes a great sense of nostalgia for all the idyllic teenage escape films of our youth. For me, it's Stand by Me (1986), The Goonies (1985) and Dead Poets Society (1989), movies about breaking away from the authoritative society of your parents or your school, finding your own way, making your own rules and then falling back into the embrace of your parents or your headmaster. And hopefully your headmaster's embrace is purely platonic.
• [advice for would-be actors] Make the rest of your life happy. For me, when I started dating [wife] Megan [Mullally], my auditions became so much better, because I knew that when I came home from the audition I got to kiss her. I didn't give a damn about the audition nearly as much, and that gave me a sense of confidence.

Interesting Facts about Nick Offerman

1. Attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1988 to 1993.
2. He was awarded the 1997 Joseph Jefferson Award Citation for Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play for "The Kentucky Cycle" at the Pegasus Players in Chicago, Illinois.
3. B. Emil Boulos, Joe Foust, Andrew Leman, Sean Sinitski, Chris Thometz and he were awarded the 1998 Joseph Jefferson Award Citation for Puppetry and Masks for the play, "The Skriker", at the Defiant Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
4. Is an accomplished woodworker, as seen in the April 30, 2010, episode of Last Call with Carson Daly (2002).
5. His father's lineage is German and Swiss-German, and his mother's ancestry is English, Irish, German, Swiss-German, distant Welsh, and remote French, Scottish, and Jersey (Channel Islander).
6. Says he grew up in 'this great farm family' in the countryside of Illinois.
7. Brother of Matt Offerman.
8. Is a surprisingly graceful dancer.
9. Provides the voice for the Fremulon Productions vanity card. Fremulon is a production company founded by television producer and writer Michael Schur, and it produced Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013), Parks and Recreation (2009), and other shows.
10. Makes furniture in his spare time.
11. Nick is a die-hard Chicago Cubs fan.