Scott Glenn Quotes

In the work that I normally do, you have a whole script, a whole arc, that you play. And I do believe a good actor will play every bit of information they're given.

I am good when there is something central about the character. There is always a human theme I attach myself to. I am really looking for something that is moving or enlightening or something with depth as an actor. I look for these kinds of roles.

I'm just first of all looking for a part that's well written and speaks to me.

I'm focused on finding characters I connect to.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.

I always believed in my characters. I lived them.

I'm all about the story. If I like the character and I think the story's entertaining, I'll do it.

I'd love to do a film. I'd love to play a character that I know the beginning, middle and end of.

I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part.

I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.

When I approach any script, I always try to find what I would relate to most in it.

Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character.

There has to be something that I like about a character for me to be able to play him.

I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.

For me, when I'm making a movie I like to stay in character throughout the day.

Every character I've played is like family to me.

If I don't fall in love with my characters, I cannot shoot.

Everything I've ever learned about acting - and I went to theater school - was about playing what the character wants and throwing yourself fully into going after what the character wants.

You always have to create the character from the ground up.

There is a little bit of me infused in every character I play.

For me, with a character, you start with the shoes.

You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters... and that's why the characters need to be real.

Every actor turns everything round to their character.

In terms of the parallels, I've never related less to a character than Riggan.