I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.

Nathan Fillion

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I've kind of learned this about Joss Whedon. Never say never. I've learned that. I also have another rule about Joss Whedon. Never say no. Just... whatever Joss Whedon wants to do, just do it.

ive-learned kind want

Never trust a southerner. No, I'm kidding. They're wonderful. You want to believe in his niceness and his charm, but he's an evil kind of crazy man who's righteous. Fear the righteous.

crazy men believe

I'm comfortable only when there's a mutual attraction. That's what anyone wants. If I find out she's not attracted to me, it brings down my level of attraction to her. If I'm interested and find out she's not, I tend to cool off.

mutual-attraction levels want

I'm the one who often makes the 'Murder, She Wrote' reference, and ABC hates that, they don't want me to do that. And I say that having never actually watched 'Murder, She Wrote'. I think people have been trying to compare it to crime shows that are on right now, and all I can do is listen. I don't watch a lot of TV.

hate people thinking

I remember when TiVO first came out I was all about TiVo. I came home and that thing was frozen, and I thought 'This is awful. This is the end of the world'. Then I unplugged it, and I plugged it back in, and still frozen. It was paralyzing. I called them. They said, 'Just unplug it longer.' Fixed. But it also taught me I'm an addict.

awful home firsts

There are people who have energy that say don't come near me, don't get too close. There's people like Adrienne Shelley who have the energy of come over here and give me a hug and if you're around me you're going to be happy about it.

hug giving people

I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - th... by Nathan Fillion

I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.

smell book hands

In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.

fun trying character

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'C... by Nathan Fillion

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

castles comedy tragedy

When I was a waiter I was fired twice from the same restaurant. I guess I was that good of an actor but that bad of a waiter.

restaurants waiter actors

My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.

information cutting brain

I had an Indiana Jones fedora that I loved. I don't know what happened to it. I don't know where it went. Wish I had it back. Whoever's got it, you suck.

indiana fedoras wish

I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.

home running doors

I've always noticed a difference between working with a director and working with a writer/director. In how much they're invested and how specific they are.

differences directors

No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.

real hero past

Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.

foxes pay giving

You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.

pride self littles

It's hard to shake a stick at success. by Nathan Fillion

It's hard to shake a stick at success.

shakes hard sticks

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.

successful teacher school

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.

deals play character