Castiel is a fictional character portrayed by Misha Collins on The CW’s American fantasy television series Supernatural. An Angel of the Lord first appears in the fourth season and is used to introduce the theme of Christian theology to the series.
In the series, Castiel brings Dean Winchester back from Hell and frequently helps him and his brother, Sam, in their battles with various demons and angels along the way. These Castiel quotes will motivate you.
Best Castiel Quotes
- “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.” ~ Misha Collins
- “Be kind to yourself so you can be happy enough to be kind to the world.” ~ Misha Collins
- “I want to live in a world where ‘normal’ is an insult.” ~ Misha Collins
- “Even small acts of kindness can make a profound difference to somebody else.” ~ Misha Collins
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“We are bound only by the limits of our imaginations.” ~ Misha Collins
- “Angels are totally real. Tinkerbell has a hot ass. Wendigos exist. It’s all true. Satan is blonde. True fact.” ~ Misha Collins
- “Do what moves you and makes you smile and the “good” will follow.” ~ Misha Collins
- “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.” ~ Misha Collins
- “Perhaps I shifted from “me” to “we” when I realized that “I” could get a lot more done with “us.”” ~ Misha Collins
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“I am passionate about tea, running, the idea that we are bound only by the limits of our imaginations, and maple syrup.” ~ Misha Collins
- “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.” ~ Misha Collins
- “I had a moment when I first got on Supernatural when I was like, omg, people are paying attention to me and I have fans, maybe I should cultivate an image and like try to seem really cool. I had this sort of moment of being commercially self conscious, and it took me maybe a month to realize, no, this is just not fucking who I am… Here’s a picture of me in drag, fuck it – which is, by the way, so much more liberating and relaxing… There’s not a more surefire way to give a stifled boring empty vapid meaningless piece of interview. Everything that comes out of your mouth sucks if you’re trying to say the right thing…” ~ Misha Collins
- “I’ve always had a fascination with hugging (I’m not really particular about who or what it is I’m embracing as long as there’s a “squish” factor).” ~ Misha Collins
- “If God is watching your every move, you should probably straighten up your act a little bit.” ~ Misha Collins
- “It warms the cockles of my heart. Words chosen carefully.” ~ Misha Collins
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“It’s fun to see people blow through their own perceived limitations.” ~ Misha Collins
- “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.” ~ Misha Collins
- “When I was in high school, I liked to pretend that I was a Russian foreign exchange student. I would do things like go into a pizza restaurant and tell them Id never had pizza before, and theyd bring me into the kitchen and show me how to make an American pizza. Its really fun.” ~ Misha Collins
- “I’m feeling pretty good. A lot of people don’t know this, but I am not currently in prison, which feels great.” ~ Misha Collins
- “The philosophical underpinnings of my approach to acting are that there are universal human qualities, and that every character is actually available within each one of us, that if we tap down into that universal humanness, we can find whatever character it is that we need to play already there within ourselves, and it’s just a matter of peeling apart the onion that is you and finding that character within you, because of this universal human quality.” ~ Misha Collins
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“I’m just trying to remember what self-respect feels like. It’s a fading memory.” ~ Misha Collins
- “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.” ~ Misha Collins
- “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.” ~ Misha Collins, Castiel quotes
- “I am honored to even be considered for any list that includes such icons as Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles. I have had posters of those guys hanging over my bed for years now. I find the whole thing quite arousing.” ~ Misha Collins
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“Meditating takes on a different quality when someone taps you on the shoulder and says, “Dad, why are you sleeping like that?”” ~ Misha Collins
- “I am not on tumblr. I can barely spell tumblr. However, there does seem to be someone on tumblr (who copied my reddit user name) who is apparently trying to impersonate me. I like the idea that people are pretending to be me. I spend most of my time pretending not to be me.” ~ Misha Collins
- “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.” ~ Misha Collins
- “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.” ~ Misha Collins
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“I’ve never done too much inquiry into angels.” ~ Misha Collins
- “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.” ~ Misha Collins
- “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.” ~ Misha Collins
- “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.” ~ Misha Collins
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“Dressage is when you put a dress on your horse. It’s like putting on drag, but for horses.” ~ Misha Collins
- “I occasionally go to a yoga class. Everyone looks so limber and coordinated compared to me. I feel like I scare my classmates.” ~ Misha Collins
- “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.” ~ Misha Collins
- “The Revelations is an amazing, rich material that is full of stories about angels and angels being sent down to Earth to wipe out a third of the population. There are angels that come down and wipe out a third of the population and then another angel will come down and wipe out a third of all the animals living in the sea and another angel will come down and wipe out all the vegetation on the land. They are some vengeful individules, in Revelations, the angels. There is a lot of destructive capacity in an angel’s being.” ~ Misha Collins
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“I grew up with a family that had very little and were at times homeless.” ~ Misha Collins
- “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.” ~ Misha Collins
- “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.” ~ Misha Collins
- “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.” ~ Misha Collins
- “I’ve always liked sci-fi/fantasy films. I’ve never really followed any sci-fi television shows though. I wouldn’t consider myself a fan. When asked, I think I say the Matrix is my favorite movie.” ~ Misha Collins
- “If I write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of poetry.” ~ Misha Collins, Castiel quotes on writing
- “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.” ~ Misha Collins
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“I’m not actually pop culture or social media savvy. I really didn’t know what Twitter was when I created an account.” ~ Misha Collins
- “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.” ~ Misha Collins
- “There are shows, a lot of small cable shows like Breaking Bad, wherein the general population nobody watches them really, but everybody in Los Angeles in the industry watches them, and to get a small role on a show like that actually, in some respects, advances your career more than having a huge hit role on a genre show because they are somehow dismissed as a secondary market in this industry” ~ Misha Collins
- “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.” ~ Misha Collins
- “It just amazing to me that Timeless is a bubble show, that it’s just not solidly in the renew column. I think that would only happen today when we’re in this golden era of television, where there’s so much to watch, it’s just hard to capture an audience in the first place.” ~ Misha Collins
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“It is good to be God, yeah. It’s nice to get the recognition that I’ve been working so hard for.” ~ Misha Collins
- “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.” ~ Misha Collins
- “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.” ~ Misha Collins
- “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.” ~ Misha Collins
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“Well, I like to write poetry. I’m a published poet.” ~ Misha Collins
- “I am a frustrating interviewee. I’m like Ronald Reagan. I don’t remember and I don’t recall.” ~ Misha Collins
- “Technology has changed the fan/actor interaction quite a bit.” ~ Misha Collins
- “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.” ~ Misha Collins
- “I’m not trying to say that I’m sick of Supernatural in any way, nor am I sick of my character, because he changes all the time; it’s just nice to do something different.” ~ Misha Collins
- “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.” ~ Misha Collins
- “When you become an actor, you never, ever imagine you’re going to be working on one role for a decade, and while it is such a blessing to get the opportunity to do that, it’s also nice to do something different.” ~ Misha Collins
