S R Nathan Quotes

When I watch TV I can tell when someone is punching the joke and telling me when to laugh (I’ll decide when to laugh, thank you very much).

I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I would cancel dialysis to be in the [hopefully upcoming Firefly] movie.

'Desperate Housewives' is an ensemble cast, where I played a tertiary character. I made a lot of great friends, but that show didn't keep me very busy.

Castle isn't really affected emotionally by murder. He's thrilled about, 'Oh, my God, I wonder how this happened?'

I've got a fantastic life. I enjoy what I do for a living. I see the blessings; I'm not blind.

I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah, I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.

I've got a full plate, yes I do. That iPod that's nice. A phone recorder? Nicely done. All right I'm a bit of a tech geek. I have a subscription to Popular Science and I keep up on all this stuff.

Castle is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

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.

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

When I go to a sci-fi convention, oh God, it's the closest thing to being a rock star I will ever know in this life. I want to be a rock star, don't you? It's a good thing to be, a rock star.

The Incredibles was the best movie ever made. Ever. Made. BSTL.

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.

People keep inviting me back. It's nice to work with the same people when you've had a good time previously, and this is one of those cases.

I live in Los Angeles and I like to do a lot of hiking. I live a very relaxed life.

It's hard to shake a stick at success.

I'm not a big prop actor.

When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.

I don't have 4 or 5 projects in front of me and an offer on every one saying 'what one would you like to do?' Things come along one at a time.

I think that acting can be a very pressurized existence. So when I'm not working, I spend very loose and unpressurized time and I like to meet people who have a similar attitude.

The nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works.

I don't spend a lot of time online.

I want to be a working actor; I want to do jobs that excite me and challenge me, and I want to something fun.

My job changes very little because I've found that the more you try to be funny, the less funny you become.

I am one of the lucky few who is successful in their career, and I'm really enjoying myself.

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.

The kind of churches we played in, it wasn't about how good you could play your instrument, it was about how much you enjoyed playing your instrument.

Record stores are great because it's good to physically get your hands on the music instead of downloading. It's always better to get the artwork too.

At least we got to see the worst haircut since 1984 try to steal the spotlight from lovely Taylor Swift.

I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.

I want to keep on progressing. I definitely think acting is a long process to be one of the greats like Morgan Freeman or Jack Nicholson.

Whyte's work remains a living and usable handbook for improving our cities, our countryside, and our lives.

Perspective should be learned - and then forgotten. The residue - a sensitivity to perspective - helps perception, varying with each individual and determined by his responsive needs.

The local-tone is the intrinsic value of a thing - excluding any effects of light. The local-tone of a common pearl is very nearly white; that of a lump of coal, nearly black.

Value, whether the result of massed lines, broad strokes, or washes, is the necessary and only tool for modelling form with light.

Value gives the artist the means of showing subtle changes in a form's surface-state, and it helps clarify the relative distance between forms.

The vogue of the New Negro . . . had all of the character of a public relations promotion. The Negro had to be "sold" to the public in terms they could understand.

Death mattered not -- It was a mere puncutation

'The Producers' is a sort of a once in a lifetime kind of phenomenon, and I was grateful to be a part of it.

Kevin Costner. I love Kevin Costner. That's all I have to say. I love Kevin Costner.

I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.

People have to do things in their own time, and that's what I did.

People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz

I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.