Nathan Fillion
Nathan Fillion
Nathan Fillion is a Canadian actor and voice actor best known for his role as Richard Castle on the ABC series Castle, as well as his earlier portrayal of the lead role of Captain Malcolm Reynolds in the television series Firefly and its feature film continuation, Serenity...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth27 March 1971
CityEdmonton, Canada
CountryCanada
Nathan Fillion quotes about
great-day actors television
I'm living in Los Angeles, I'm in films and I'm on television, and I'm working with actors and telling stories. I'm living the fantasy. My worst day is a great day.
character breathing people
When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
hero thinking perfect
I think it's a dance that people want to see. It's a chemistry that people want to see. In the same way that people don't want to see a perfect hero with no flaws who can handle anything, people don't want to see a perfect relationship. There's nothing interesting about that. People want to see you fail.
actors bigs props
I'm not a big prop actor.
ideas hair like-you
When you slick back your hair, you get a really good idea of just how melon-like your head actually is.
fans thrill
It's a thrill to be a fan amongst fans.
teacher school successful
I was going to be a High School teacher. I was studying at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, up in Canada. I was also acting in a wonderfully supportive theatre community in Edmonton. There's a lot of support for theatre there. So, I was having a great time, but I didn't consider acting as a serious career initially, because even the most successful actors that I know in Edmonton are not super successful. Acting over there is just not a success-oriented career.
sticks shakes hard
It's hard to shake a stick at success.
character play feels
I relate to those characters - and any character I play - in as much as I put myself in their positions and feel how I would personally deal with their experiences.
character thinking roles
What draws me to roles, I think, are moments - moments that define character, where so much more of the story is told in just a moment - a look, a line, a short scene, but something that speaks a volume, something that speaks to me.
hero thinking littles
I think maybe, if I could be a Canadian super hero, I'd have some kind of freezing power and some sort of maple syrup weapon. Could be a little sticky.
years opera soap
When you work on a soap opera, that's three years of you working every day. There was no time to do anything other than the soap opera - you're locked in.
jobs actors littles
I slowly came to realize that this job of being an actor, you spend most of your time looking for work. That is your job. Your job is auditioning. You spend very little of your time actually working.
teacher fall teaching
I always wanted to be an actor, but in Edmonton, Alberta, that's not a success-oriented career. So I said, 'I'll get my (teaching) degree and then I'll see what happens, but I'll always have that to fall back on.' So if anybody were to look at me and say, 'Oh, you're an actor,' I could always say, 'Hey man, I'm a teacher!'