Quotes by Campbell Scott

About Campbell Scott:

Campbell Scott is an American actor, director, producer, and voice artist.
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Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.

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'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.

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What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If only for two hours, great. If for the rest of our lives, even better.

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As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.

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Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.

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Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

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If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the ...

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I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for them. When you start producing and directing the movies become a little more like your children.

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When you're young, you don't care about your parents and what they're doing. But then you get to your 20s, and you start watching their movies. And then you become an actor, as I did late in college, and then you're really watching them. And they wer...

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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

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In the film world, and I know this from just talking to other people, that I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor, and the fact is I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things and on s...

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After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.

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Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.

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Television and cable have become the new independent films, in a sense, for writers and actors to gravitate towards. That's why I like short films, too; I love doing readings, audio books, working with young filmmakers; anything that keeps you from g...

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I love that I'm rarely recognized. I like it because I know I can look different from film to film.

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I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.

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I'm not a big one for lots of genitals flapping in the films.

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I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.

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I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.

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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.

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Author Bio

  • NameCampbell Scott
  • DescriptionAmerican actor and film director
  • BornJuly 19, 1961
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Actor