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Nathan Fillion Inspirational Quotes (77)

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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.
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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.
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Being in the industry, I've seen many situations where someone will get the call from the network where they say 'You guys have 5 episodes to wrap it up.' Then all your long-term story arcs gotta get wrapped up in five episodes because that's how many episodes you got left. I would hate to see that happen to 'Castle'.
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I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.
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Oh, boy. I'm still in touch with about 90 percent of my exes. They would describe me as being unlucky in love.
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I've got a fantastic life. I enjoy what I do for a living. I see the blessings I'm not blind.
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I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.
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The trick is, when you grow up, find work that feels like play.
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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.
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I've had a long line of failed television programs, pilots that were never picked up, series that didn't go very long. I've learned that there's really nothing you can do. If it's not in my control, I try not to worry about it.
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It costs nothing to say something kind. Even less to shut up altogether.
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I'm not a big prop actor.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think about my own daily choices every day in terms of how to find happiness.
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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.
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I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is 'I love you,' and one of them is bullets.
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My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.
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I've always noticed a difference between working with a director and working with a writer/director. In how much they're invested and how specific they are.
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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.
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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.
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I would cancel dialysis to be in the [hopefully upcoming Firefly] movie.
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