Nathan Fillion Quotes

There's so much to learn as an actor.

You learn an incredible amount doing theatre, not just about to behave.

I think every actor should go back and do theater periodically.

I didn't ever think about being an actor. But I fell in love with it when I realized how amazing, difficult, and interesting it is.

As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.

Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.

I'd love to do more theatre and acting. I attended a performing arts high school in London, and it would be great to be able to put all of that training to use again.

For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.

I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

I was lucky enough to get into drama school in London back in 2005, and I was there for three years, and in those three years, we did a lot of theater. A lot of classical training.

That's one of the great things about being an actor. You get to learn all these things normal people don't get to learn.

I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.

I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn't want to continue opera because I wanted to act.

I was very interested in acting as a kid. I loved to perform.

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

One of the joys about acting is researching.

One of the great joys of being an actor is you get to go back to school.

I still feel I belong to the theatre. There is nothing more challenging and exciting for an actor than performing before a live audience. The stage is the real testing ground for an actor.

When I was in junior high, a foreign-history teacher started a theater class. So I got my feet wet there and through high school, so I was very fascinated with acting as a means of expression.

I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day.

You're always dealing with emotions as an actor.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

I pick up a lot of stuff from them, but I don't think there's any great trick to acting.

I just enjoy acting, whatever area - theatre, film, television.