Nathan Fillion
I don't have 4 or 5 projects in front of me and an offer on every one saying 'what one would you like to do?' Things come along one at a time.Collection: Projects
I am one of the lucky few who is successful in their career, and I'm really enjoying myself.Collection: Successful
People keep inviting me back. It's nice to work with the same people when you've had a good time previously, and this is one of those cases.Collection: Nice
I think people imagine that I have about five scripts sitting in front of me and I say, 'I think I'm going to go with the super hero thing and after that I'll wrap it up with some more sci-fi and then do a romantic comedy.' But it doesn't quite work out that way.Collection: Hero
I always wanted to be an actor, but in Edmonton, Alberta, that's not a success-oriented career. So I said, 'I'll get my (teaching) degree and then I'll see what happens, but I'll always have that to fall back on.' So if anybody were to look at me and say, 'Oh, you're an actor,' I could always say, 'Hey man, I'm a teacher!'Collection: Teacher
I tried my hand at writing, I tried to write out a little script - and it's not too bad. Mostly, though, it let me understand how incredibly difficult that job is. I can't even imagine doing it on a weekly basis for a series in any way. That's tough. I think I'll try to leave that to smarter people than me.Collection: Jobs
The nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works.Collection: Art
I don't spend a lot of time online.Collection: Online
I want to be a working actor; I want to do jobs that excite me and challenge me, and I want to something fun.Collection: Jobs
My job changes very little because I've found that the more you try to be funny, the less funny you become.Collection: Jobs
I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living.Collection: Jobs
When you work on a soap opera, that's three years of you working every day. There was no time to do anything other than the soap opera - you're locked in.Collection: Years
Castle isn't really affected emotionally by murder. He's thrilled about, 'Oh, my God, I wonder how this happened?'Collection: Castles
Castle is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.Collection: Writing
My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders.' I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.Collection: Dinner
I've got a full plate, yes I do. That iPod that's nice. A phone recorder? Nicely done. All right I'm a bit of a tech geek. I have a subscription to Popular Science and I keep up on all this stuff.Collection: Nice
I'm actually reading 'World War Z' again! It's incredibly realistic and it's written as an oral history through interviews with different characters. Max Brooks wrote this book in so many different voices. There are about forty or so. It's incredible. When I finish 'World War Z' I'm going to go back and start again on the 'Game of Thrones' series.Collection: War
There are people who have energy that say don't come near me, don't get too close. There's people like Adrienne Shelley who have the energy of come over here and give me a hug and if you're around me you're going to be happy about it.Collection: People
I'm not a famous celebrity of any kind. I'm a guy from Edmonton who's got a great job and I'm loving it.Collection: Jobs
I love doing 'Castle.' We pump out 24 episodes in 10 months, and we work long hours. We do lots and lots of takes, and everyone there is a talent machine. It is a taxing endeavour to say the least, but when you get into a groove, it doesn't matter if you're tired, it doesn't matter if you're sick. You can do it.Collection: Tired
I enjoy the art, and I enjoy drawing. I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book.Collection: Art
I think about my own daily choices every day in terms of how to find happiness.Collection: Thinking
When I watch TV I can tell when someone is punching the joke and telling me when to laugh (I’ll decide when to laugh, thank you very much).Collection: Laughing
The secret to comedy is not playing the comedy, but actually playing the situation, playing the drama of it.Collection: Drama
Somebody once said that you can never act and be another person; you're only acting facets of yourself. I think there's a lot of truth in that.Collection: Thinking
What draws me to roles, I think, are moments - moments that define character, where so much more of the story is told in just a moment - a look, a line, a short scene, but something that speaks a volume, something that speaks to me.Collection: Character
I'm living in Los Angeles, I'm in films and I'm on television, and I'm working with actors and telling stories. I'm living the fantasy. My worst day is a great day.Collection: Great Day
I realized, dumb people don't know they're dumb. When people try to make me laugh and they try to be funny, that's when they lose me. I find a lot of comedy in honesty.Collection: Honesty
Working on Drive, a lot of fun. This is Tim Minear whom I've worked with before on Firefly of course. He called me up and said I've got a part for you that you will love and I love Tim's writing. I love his stories. I love his characters, his dialogue. He has a knack for reveals and he has a knack for moments.Collection: Fun
My mother always tells me, 'Nathan, you're very much a geek, but your strength is that you look mainstream. So no one can tell just by looking at you.' I think this is true.Collection: Mother
I have jobs that I've preferred more than others simply because I've gotten to meet and make friends with great people. I've pulled at least one very close friend from every project I've done.Collection: Jobs
I have a cat. I'm not a cat-person, but she came with the house that I'm renting. I don't know how many hundreds of dollars worth of bump removals, teeth removals, cleanings and vet fees I've been through. But of course I love her and she's worth it.Collection: Cat
I would cancel dialysis to be in the [hopefully upcoming Firefly] movie.Collection: Firefly
The Incredibles was the best movie ever made. Ever. Made. BSTL.Collection: Incredibles
When I was a waiter I was fired twice from the same restaurant. I guess I was that good of an actor but that bad of a waiter.Collection: Actors
Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn’t care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It’s like, ‘Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.’Collection: Reading
I’ll never look down on and I love running into actors who say ‘Oh yeah, I did a soap.’ I say ‘Tell me which one!’ It’s like being a member of a secret society.Collection: Romance
In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that’s fun.Collection: Fun
With scheduling and the way projects come up, I take the first thing that interests me and that moves me. If it’s going to be fun, if I’m going to have a good time, and I’m going to enjoy the people I’m with, then that’s a good enough reason to do it.Collection: Fun