“It’s like, to me, acting is like a child walking in the park, the better the actor, the greater the playground he has.”
“Misha had such a take on Castiel that it really threw me, because I didn’t know him well enough to know that this was an actor making a specific choice for his character. Which, to be honest, for a television series a lot of people just come on and act, but they don’t really sit down and make a choice for a character, like ‘I want to take it this way and I want to do something that’s completely not me and make a character out of it.’ They’ll just come on and play themselves, and that’s usually why they get the role. But Misha did something special. At first I was like, ‘Oh no, what is he doing? Why is he acting so weird? Is this guy really like this? Is this who we’re going to deal with?’ Then I got to know him and he’s a cool, laid back guy. It was very exciting for me to know that I was going to be working with somebody who could really make a committed choice to a character. And it worked - I loved it! I was caught off guard at first, and it took me a little while to get used to what he was doing, but that actually played well for the character because Dean would’ve been caught off guard by an angel as well. I’m really happy Misha’s part of the gang.” - Jensen Ackles
