My mother always tells me, 'Nathan, you're very much a geek, but your strength is that you look mainstream. So no one can tell just by looking at you.' I think this is true.

It costs nothing to say something kind. Even less to shut up altogether.

I don't expect anybody to know who I am.

My worst day is still a really good day. I complain, but I catch myself and count my blessings. I am truly blessed.

Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.

Thank God there is a such thing as hiatus. We got the first 'Dr. Horrible' done in six days, we banged it out.

I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is 'I love you,' and one of them is bullets.

Do something today you've been afraid to do. A decision based on fear is the wrong decision.

What turned me on to comedy was - well, first of all, I like being able to laugh, I like people who can make me laugh.

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

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.

Nothing succeeds like indifference to success.

Holy Faith is fear for God.

A mathematician is an individual who constructs space with 0D particles and then places a bowling ball on this invisible canvas to explain how gravity works.

Strange how short-sighted being invisible can make you.

Just because it's automatic doesn't mean it works.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

When my friends were besotted with Jason Donovan, my heroes were Colm O'Rourke and Barney Rock

I keep letting you back in. How can I explain myself? As painful as this thing has been, I just can't be with no one else.

The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything.

In our endless past lives, we've all done everything, you name it, we've done it. Good, bad, intermediate.