Nathan Fillion Quotes

Hmm mmm I mean, work is work, I'll take whatever work I can get.

I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do.

I'm very, very lucky to be a working actor, but I've also been careful. I don't just take anything. 'Durham County' came to me. You have to look at the quality of work you do, and 'Durham' set the standard. I wait for things that keep me really interested.

My hiatus timeline is so minimal, there's only a select number of projects that I can go in for.

My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me.

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out.

And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.

I admit, I do a lot of projects, but it's because I'm in a position now where I'm reading a lot more scripts and plays and things, and I'm really listening to offers and trying to think what I want to do at any given time.

In Tulsa, it was sports or nothing.

It does happen sometimes that you aren't able to understand whether you should go for a particular film or not, and you are left with only one or two choices.

By the time I finished school, I found out I wasn't qualified to study anything but music.

My agents and my managers are very good at whittling things down to the things they think I would be good at and that I'd respond well to, and that includes theater, TV and film. Whatever it is, if the material is right for me, then I'll go for it.

I'm not in a position where I can pick and choose. It's the other way around. The studios pick and choose.

There weren't many options that came my way after Tum Bin.' Yet, people started expecting too much from me after that film.

When you're out of gas, you don't have many options.

It was clear from very early on that I would work in the family company. There was not really ever another option or idea.

I only got about four moves.

My game plan is very simple. If something good comes up, I will check if those required dates are free and I will do the film. Regardless of the language and the scope of the project.

The generation before me certainly told me that there would come a point when there were fewer parts, telling me to make hay while the sun shone. There was a time in my late thirties when I thought that it was something I had to get myself ready for, that things were going to slow down as I hit 40.

You have so many offers coming to you so as an actor it is all about finding which project to invest your energy in.

People ask me what I would have done if it wasn't for basketball. I can never give a good story because I honestly don't know. I had no other options.

There's just not that many videos I want to watch.

I grew up in a place where there weren't many opportunities if you didn't become a footballer.

When you ask me why I do one film a year, it is not my fault. I've chosen what I liked from whatever work came my way.