Top 136 Quotes & Sayings by Nathan Fillion - Page 3

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

I don't spend a lot of time online.

I'm fortunate enough that every job I do seems to be, at the very least, teaching me something fantastic. I make new friends. I work with talented people. And each project and experience seems to be better than the last. I seem to be topping myself all the time. I think to myself: "It can't get better, it can't get better..." And then something happens that makes me feel like I'm truly richer for the experience.

I think that acting can be a very pressurized existence. So when I'm not working, I spend very loose and unpressurized time and I like to meet people who have a similar attitude.

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.

I live in Los Angeles and I like to do a lot of hiking. I live a very relaxed life.

I am one of the lucky few who is successful in their career, and I'm really enjoying myself.

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!'

I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living.

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

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.

I think maybe, if I could be a Canadian super hero, I'd have some kind of freezing power and some sort of maple syrup weapon. Could be a little sticky.

The nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works.

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.

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.

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