Nathan Fillion Quotes

Ah, nuts. I'm an actor. I just do what comes naturally.

I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.

I think you have to have a sense of humor about every movie that you're doing. Your character needs to be relatable in a way that, even when you're doing the most bizarre things, sometimes a bit of tongue in cheek is necessary to keep up the believability of it.

Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.

I'm not an impersonator. I'm a lousy impersonator, actually.

I like to think of myself as a character actor, though there's some redundancy in that.

Cary Grant is really the master of not taking himself so seriously.

I'm grateful for every stupid mistake and dumb joke I tried to make.

Pure unadulterated success is not as funny as failure.

I think what's hysterically funny is a guy who sets himself up as the most confident, everything's-perfect, know-it-all, things-are-swell human being and then gets wiped out every time.

I was a terrible actor, and that's why I got the job: I would allow myself to be so bad that I lowered and got down to WWF standards.

I'm not the smartest dude in the world. (After all... I picked a career in acting.)

I think I became an actor because I couldn't sing.

I've had a lot of practice and wrong's what I do best.

See? My plans don’t all suck. Just most of them.

When I go to a restaurant I always ask the manager, "Give me a table near a waiter."

I've been called a funny person, for a long time. I don't know that I know anything about comedic acting. I'm not a good improver, which is what a lot of comedic actors are really good at. I have failed miserably when I've been asked to improvise.

You just can't take yourself too seriously, especially in comedy. You shouldn't try to be funny, but you should try to be as honest as possible. The extreme end of honesty is usually what's funny. That's your job [as an actor]. You just have to let people see it.

What happens, I think, is especially for comic effect you find something about yourself that you don't like. You exaggerate it, and it's funny.

I'm not romantic at all. I'm a moaner. I should be on Grumpy Old Men. I'm terrible.

If I had a sense of humor, I'd be laughing right now.

I'm an actor who loves doing comedy.

If I wasn't acting, I have no clue what I'd be doing 'cause I have no other talent.

I think laughter comes because things are hardly working.

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.