Nathan Fillion Quotes

When I say that the acting is sort of like a normal acting experience, I'm just talking about the interacting in actual scenes, like doing dialogue.

Any good actor is a character actor.

I consider myself a character actor.

As an actress, I really love people like Anna Magnani and Debra Winger. I also think there is nobody better than Meryl Streep.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.'

I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.

I play a tough cop in 'Very Good' and the role is quite similar to Dhaya Nayak, Mumbai's popular encounter specialist. I have made all efforts to fit the role.

I played a tomboy character in 'Dohchay.'

It is a tough job to portray a character and make it believable on screen.

I love acting. I'm actually a very emotional actor.

You'd be surprised how much being a good actor pays off.

I'm always in the elements, it seems like it's pouring rain on me a lot and there's crowds of people pushing me around, and it feels very real. Which is great as a actor, you don't have to come up with too much of it. I'm always amazed.

At the moment, my trajectory isn't to think about acting. I'm absolutely devoted to The Imaginarium, our projects and directing. And watching and enabling other actors do their thing in our studio is hugely rewarding. I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.

I was never an actress -- none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.

I play a guy who is 40. And I am a very good actor, because I'm 41.

I started acting when I was 13 years old and I feel like I really admire actors who are these kind of amazing shape-changing people, that they almost can turn themselves into other people.

I'm an actor, so I love to be degraded!

Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.

Denzel [Washington] just knows the actor. He knows the process, and you don't often get that.

Acting isn't a profession, it's a way of living.

I'm an actor - I want to be known for that.

Oh, those wonder-filled evenings when acting enables me for a short moment to have more life.

I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.

Being an actor is really odd. So, don't take that as your reality - take your family, take your friends, take your relationships - that's your reality. And hang on to them.