Nathan Fillion Quotes
'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
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People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center serves as a poignant reminder of our past and a trusted source of education for schoolchildren, community members, and visitors from across the country.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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Our interests are very much aligned. Our attempts of cooperation are very much aligned.
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I think it's alarming that people believe that success enables one to forget how life felt before. As if one could simply exchange one's values.
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You just gotta do it, man. You can't count on the guy making the tackle in front of you.
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I remember seeing Tony Bennett on television. He was the only guy in the orchestra who was wearing a white tux, and I thought, 'That would be good. To be the only man on stage in a white jacket.'
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The point of Jesus' existence wasn't to lessen or diminish our appreciation of each other, but to expand our appreciation of each other by reminding us what lies within all of us, because Jesus was an example of the pinnacle of human evolution.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
