Nathan Fillion Quotes

People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!

I accept the fact that some things don't go the way you hope.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.

Things don't always work out as you want them to.

I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.

I did everything I could to establish myself, but it just didn't work that way. I'm not angry about that.

I tried out for my basketball team every year and I never made it. You had to buy the shoes before you knew if you were on the team because it took a few weeks for them to ship. I bought the shoes every year, never once made the team, had a ton of high school basketball shoes.

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'

I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.

You're constantly getting rejected in acting. You get rejected more than you get hired!

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.

There's no point in dwelling on rejection.

I haven't got enough fingers to count the number of clubs who rejected me.

I missed out on the World Cup twice and it did not kill me.

I'd been trying to do this since I was 15, sending out the demo tapes and doing all the things that everyone told me that I should be doing. But no deal - like, never.

Normally, a loss, it's hard to swallow, but you get over it sooner or later.

Some days, I'm going to miss shots; some days, I'm not.

Everybody has a good idea, but nothing goes as planned.

Life shows us all the time, really and truly, that you're not in control of most things, but at the same time, the things that you are able to control, you should definitely hold on to that. But it's okay that you can't control every aspect of your life.

There was a time in my life when I used to plan elaborately; not anymore. I gave up when I realised nothing was going my way.

I received rejection letters for ten years (one on a napkin, written in crayon.) I had all my rejection notices stored in a box. When the box was finally full I took it to the curb and set it on fire. The next day I went out and got a temp job.