Nathan Fillion Quotes

I remember all the stages in my career where I almost didn't have enough confidence to try for something, almost didn't have the guts to follow something I was excited about doing, because I didn't know anyone else who'd done it, or other people made me question it.

I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly 'Scrubs' guy... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it.

I'm a relatively shy person, but I love being challenged and putting myself in positions that are scary.

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do.

I really chose a path after 'Grown Ups' of doing different things that I hadn't tried before, and just trying to take on those challenges.

My becoming an actor was a massive shift for me, and a terrifying one.

I got to a point where I thought, now I have a choice. I can stay in theatre, or I can challenge myself and give this a go. And I want to challenge myself. I like to scare myself.

You do have to challenge yourself. I think scared is a good thing.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.

The comfort zone is the great enemy of courage and confidence.

Do what you're afraid to do.

You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.

Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.

Excitement and reward exist only outside your comfort zone. You'll experience neither of them until you make yourself do something you really don't want to do. So what is it that scares the hell out of you?

You have to have fear to take risks - and I want to at least try.

If you don't go towards the thing you fear, you won't be able to say you lived.

I always say, you know, if I sit here and close my eyes and say, 'When did I learn the most in my life, in my career?' It'll always be when I close them and everything I think of is when I took a risk. It's when I think I learned the most.

I didn't have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. I just wanted to grow.

I hated modeling. I was so scared. But as soon as I started doing jewelry, I did better as a model.

Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I'll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

We have a normal. As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.

I love going out of my comfort zone - I live to go out of my comfort zone.

I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.