Top 35 Campbell Scott Quotes

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.

Directing is: you‘re overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you’re still thinking about it.

To me, it’s just like, if you have talent, and you’re lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it’s not exalted at all.

I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I’m me all the time and I’m sick of it.

Think of the difference between a team sport and one that you do by yourself. Like it or not, if you’re by yourself, you’re going to be faced with a lot more of your own doubts and your own drawbacks and your own whatever.

Everybody loves a villain – let’s face it.

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.

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 were really very good.

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.

In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you’re using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you’re taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.

I only made two studio movies, that was a long time ago and obviously I removed myself. I think some of that is geographical. I live in New York and I want to work there, it’s as simple as that.

I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie – that’s what happens, so I just made my own.

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

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

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 stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

There’s no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There’s no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.

I hate to tell you this, but there’s an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that’s the word used, and often – dull.

You can’t, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.

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.

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.

Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you’re going to get all cut up in a movie.

I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.

The fact is, it’s hard to release movies.

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.

The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn’t care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.

I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.

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.

‘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.

The fact is that you’re never gonna believe any of the reviews, because the movie is to you what it is to you. No one’s ever gonna sway you from what you feel about it.

I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.

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

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.

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

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

The nightmare of a film career, or at least the challenge of one, is that you’re rarely going to get the opportunity to explore character because once people see you in one thing, you know, they want to see that again.