Quotes by Misha Collins

I'm just trying to remember what self-respect feels like. It's a fading memory.

Now I have close to a million followers on Twitter, which is crazy because I don't even know how to spell. But it definitely forces me to think more about the we factor.

I suppose giving without expecting anything in return isn't something new, but it always pushes your happy button when you do it or see it.

I'm not actually pop culture or social media savvy. I really didn't know what Twitter was when I created an account.

I occasionally go to a yoga class. Everyone looks so limber and coordinated compared to me. I feel like I scare my classmates.

Being God is not all it's cracked up to be, and it's not as easy as one would think it would be. You'd think the deck would be really stacked in your favor as God, but of course, I've run into some pretty big obstacles and problems.

I've been compiling a list of art project ideas for a long time. These are ideas of things I would love to see someday. They range from the practical -- jackets with woodstoves in them -- to the sublime -- images of nuns on waterslides.

Being a father is like directing Alien or Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It's much more difficult than directing an episode of TV. Also, directing a show or movie lasts a few months at most, parenting lasts for decades.

Be kind to yourself so you can be happy enough to be kind to the world.

It warms the cockles of my heart. Words chosen carefully.

When I try to use incantations at work i often find they have no effect and my coworkers just laugh at me.

The image of a person completely covered in cotton candy made me laugh the most. I'm not sure why. To me, being tarred and feathered in sugar is just good comedy.

Dressage is when you put a dress on your horse. It's like putting on drag, but for horses.

I'm feeling pretty good. A lot of people don't know this, but I am not currently in prison, which feels great.

We are bound only by the limits of our imaginations.

Don't pressure yourself. Don't worry about what others think you should do or what the societal norm is. Do what moves you and makes you smile and the good will follow.

Do what moves you and makes you smile and the good will follow.

I've been playing the same character on Supernatural for the past nine years and while that character has gone through a lot of different iterations, it's nice to step out and just do something altogether different.

Even small acts of kindness can make a profound difference to somebody else.

There might be an Easter egg in there that I'm missing in Timeless, I'll have to look again, but there are pop culture references, for sure. There are a lot of references that you would only understand if you've seen the movie The Untouchables.

I also have two children under three who keep me up all night and don't seem to understand the benefits of sitting in silence, which has presented an interesting challenge.

It is good to be God, yeah. It's nice to get the recognition that I've been working so hard for.

I think participating in Gishwhes is a crash course in facing our fears: people go to crowded shopping malls wearing scuba gear, order from a fast food restaurant in Shakespearean verse or jump out of airplanes among many other tasks.

If you can dress as a stormtrooper and go to a laundromat, or wear a sexy cheese gown in public, you might start to find normal social interactions a little less daunting.

This show Timeless is absolutely epic. I simply can't believe the production value for the episodes. Each episode is creating a new world. I just can't think of another television show that trumps the Hindenburg to the 1970s week to week.

I am passionate about tea, running, the idea that we are bound only by the limits of our imaginations, and maple syrup.

I've been a river kayaker for a long time and I've done quite a few trips. I like kayaking and I like canoeing. I don't really like being on yachts or sailboats or cruise ships. I don't like anything that's large and not human-powered.

Helping others pulls us out of our own problems. And so does dressing up like frogs and playing leap frog in a Starbucks. Who would've known.

I love kale. I bake it. I sauté it. I juice it. I massage it. I want other people to join the cult-of- kale.

Angels are totally real. Tinkerbell has a hot ass. Wendigos exist. It's all true. Satan is blonde. True fact.

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

Directing is a lot of fun, but you have to be on your toes every minute. If you zone out for even a second, you'll miss something and things will get screwed up. And here's a little secret that I'm going to let out of the bag: That is not the case with acting.

When you are acting, you are just one piece of the puzzle. You don't see how everything fits together. It feels like you have less authorship over the entire product. In directing, you take the entire picture into account, so you're challenged in a different way.

When you're doing lots and lots of episodes and you're playing the same character, it's great because you really get to know the character and it becomes a really fast style and you find subtleties in it.

I paid my way through college as a carpenter and a woodworker. So I've built the house I live in and most of the furniture that's in it, and I do a lot of woodworking still.

I've never done too much inquiry into angels.

For me, to be perfectly honest, the part of my brain that was stimulated by directing was much more exciting than a typical day of acting.

When the Haiti earthquake happened, I registered with UNICEF to set up an account, and posted to Twitter for people to donate to it. In a matter of a couple of hours, $30,000 had been donated. That, to me, was eye-opening.

A lot of times you see really good-looking guys on TV and you sort of assume that maybe there's some sort of vacuity behind them.

I grew up with a family that had very little and were at times homeless.

I guess haiku is an inspiration for me. Everyday, simple moments.

I actually think that the most efficacious way of making a difference is to lead by example, and doing random acts of kindness is setting a very good example of how to behave in the world.

As an actor, if you want to while shooting, you can run back to your trailer and take a nap. But you cannot do that while directing.

I think there are presences out there that we can't see or directly communicate with that have benevolent influence on us. Whether they're angels or something else, I'm not sure.