Top 90 Nathan Fillion Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He’s very magnetic. He’s actually very much like ‘Castle’ in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He’s the guy with the crowd around him.”

— Nathan Fillion

52. “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.”

— Nathan Fillion

53. “You have a dramatic portion of your television program and you treat it dramatically, and then you have a comedic portion of your program, and you treat it differently. Why do you change who are between the two pieces? You’re the same person. Just go.”

— Nathan Fillion

54. “I consider ‘Dr. Horrible’ a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else’s hands and changing the world.”

— Nathan Fillion

55. “I want to be a working actor; I want to do jobs that excite me and challenge me, and I want to something fun.”

— Nathan Fillion

56. “When I go to a sci-fi convention, oh God, it’s the closest thing to being a rock star I will ever know in this life. I want to be a rock star, don’t you? It’s a good thing to be, a rock star.”

— Nathan Fillion

57. “Karaoke is something that’s near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.”

— Nathan Fillion

58. “I told myself a while back, ‘Love what you do, but don’t fall in love with what you do.’ That way you won’t be brokenhearted if ever it gets canceled five episodes in – which has happened to me.”

— Nathan Fillion

59. “I don’t want my last words to be, ‘Oh god, a tiger is eating my face. My beautiful, beautiful face’.”

— Nathan Fillion

60. “I think about my own daily choices every day in terms of how to find happiness.”

— Nathan Fillion

61. “I slowly came to realize that this job of being an actor, you spend most of your time looking for work. That is your job. Your job is auditioning. You spend very little of your time actually working.”

— Nathan Fillion

62. “I had an Indiana Jones fedora that I loved. I don’t know what happened to it. I don’t know where it went. Wish I had it back. Whoever’s got it, you suck.”

— Nathan Fillion

63. “I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, ‘Wow, this is exciting, I’m a little bit nervous.’”

— Nathan Fillion

64. “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.”

— Nathan Fillion

65. “No one wants to see a person on TV who’s super-ultra-cool. That’s Superman, that’s a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They’re real people.”

— Nathan Fillion

66. “What turned me on to comedy was – well, first of all, I like being able to laugh, I like people who can make me laugh.”

— Nathan Fillion

67. “The wooden shelves were tall and packed with worn covers of books read many times over. Pages were yellowed and paperbacks had arched spines like old sway-backed horses. It was an old folks’ home for secondhand books, with that smell of old newsprint and slightly musty wood smell.”

— Nathan Fillion

68. “My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I’d never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the ‘Buffy’ and ‘Angel’ writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.”

— Nathan Fillion

69. “I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I’m actually living. And ‘Castle’ has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he’s driven by that. He’s a little immature, but he’s obviously loving life.”

— Nathan Fillion

70. “Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.”

— Nathan Fillion

71. “When people embrace character, there’s latzie. It’s the stuffing of a scene that’s not written. It’s not in the stage direction and it’s not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.”

— Nathan Fillion

72. “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.”

— Nathan Fillion

73. “I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It’s an incredible amount of work.”

— Nathan Fillion

74. “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.”

— Nathan Fillion

75. “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.”

— Nathan Fillion

76. “I’m not a big prop actor.”

— Nathan Fillion

77. “I have found the secret, you see. To become a superhero, all you have to do is want it badly enough, and comics are the fuel to that fire.”

— Nathan Fillion

78. “I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I’m a fan. My perspective’s a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.”

— Nathan Fillion

79. “I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.”

— Nathan Fillion

80. “When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.”

— Nathan Fillion

81. “It’s so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there’s laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It’s viable and mainstream.”

— Nathan Fillion

82. “I think I’ve been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I’ve picked the right coattails to ride on.”

— Nathan Fillion

83. “The secret to comedy is not playing the comedy, but actually playing the situation, playing the drama of it.”

— Nathan Fillion

84. “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.”

— Nathan Fillion

85. “When I was very young, before I could read, I remember being very interested in comic books.”

— Nathan Fillion

86. “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.”

— Nathan Fillion

87. “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.”

— Nathan Fillion

88. “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.”

— Nathan Fillion

89. “My job changes very little because I’ve found that the more you try to be funny, the less funny you become.”

— Nathan Fillion

90. “I’ll tell you what I really enjoy. We all go to the movies, we all watch television, we know what they’re about, how they work. When the main character is a cop or a spy, it’s very exciting, but I also very much enjoy when the main characters are nobodies – a trucker.”

— Nathan Fillion

91. “Thank God there is a such thing as hiatus. We got the first ‘Dr. Horrible’ done in six days, we banged it out.”

— Nathan Fillion

92. “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.”

— Nathan Fillion

93. “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.”

— Nathan Fillion