Nathan Fillion Quotes

My job is to try and present the most fully-rounded character that I can, and bring a performance that people believe in.

The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.

You've got to be honest with yourself aesthetically about who could you play. You want to artistically be true to that character.

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

I think the best acting is when you allow yourself to be kind of vulnerable in the moment.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

You use your emotions to try and find them in the character that you're playing.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.

I think as an actor, you have to make yourself vulnerable to emotions.

Crying does not equal good acting.

I've never really been a character on TV. I think, if possible, you want to portray yourself. If you're in a situation where you're supposed to react, you need to react.

So I view acting as a thoroughly involved performance with the maximum of sincerity and devotion.

At the end of the day, you're trying to - be it on theatre or on the camera - tell the truth and be honest in the moment.

I found it liberating to sing on camera. On stage, you have to indicate having a thought, and the word you are singing must indicate it as well, but on camera, you can have ideas, you can take in all the stimuli that the character would be taking in, there's a freedom you get, and you don't have the obligation to transmit each idea to the back of the house. It felt so much closer to reality for me.

I let the comedy come through the character and just try to make sure that everything is kind of rounded in a truth, in a reality, because that's what I need to make a character work.

I don't pretend to be the character. I am the character.

I knew how to act and had studied acting and enjoyed it, but I'd never pushed myself to really perform as an actor, and create a role, and have the whole character's backstory.

People watch me when I get into these characters that I have in my head, so perhaps I should try acting. So I did.

Acting is everything to me and it's at the core of every decision. Whatever importance costumes, details, lights, camera, dialogue and everything else have, if the acting is bad, cheap, or overdone everything else is just gone.

I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do

You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.

Nobody "becomes" a character. You can't act unless you are who you are.