Reid Scott Quotes

I started doing improv in college, and I really liked it.

When I was at Upright Citizens Brigade, I would pretend to be a sad, drunk rapper.

We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches.

Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.

I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.

Acting has always been such escapism for me.

Look, I get it; you come home, you work hard, and you turn on your TV... You kind of want to escape a little bit and be taken away by something. Our show required you to pay attention, and if that's not what you wanted to do, then it wasn't going to be for you, and that's OK.

I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and being a fan of what I'd seen portrayed in the movies, and I always wanted to do that one day.

I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

That was a huge part of my training, doing improv in Chicago.

I love doing improv, and I swear by it, and I encourage people to take classes, and blah blah blah. But it's always been interesting how it doesn't necessarily translate to television.

Acting is something that I really love when I am doing it, as it is interesting and fun to pretend to be someone else, but I don't ever miss it when I am not doing it.

I just loved the feeling of performing, of using my imagination to take me somewhere else.

That's what I love about movies and TV: You can go anywhere any time and be whoever you want.

I think when somebody goes to the movies and they spend their money and they take the girl out, the family, they want to have a good time. You don't always want to be hit over the head with history or how bad society is.

I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. Actually, when I did theater, I used to have a partner, and that was the way we used to write a lot of our sketches, through improvisation. So it's something I feel comfortable with.

The improv stuff, that's always surprising so a lot of times that's really funny.

I'm not an improv guy. I'm not a nerd, I play one on television.

I guess, yeah. I've always loved improv. It's my thing. I really like it, but I also think it has to be done well.

We live in a time where improv is king and people love improv, and I think there's a time and a place for that and people who are really good at structuring improv.

If you're a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you're doing a sketch.

Have fun. The game is a lot more enjoyable when you're trying to do more than just make money.

The only thing I really like doing during the week is getting ready to play the game.

I never did anything for free. Other than dancing in clubs. I give that away for nothing.

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.