Campbell Scott Quotes

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.'

When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.

I like to prepare for my roles well, so you can call me a method actor to an extent.

I am a natural actor. I try to keep it spontaneous as far as possible. That is my mantra.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

I don't really prepare for roles. I just kind of do them!

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.

For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

I had acting teachers, and one of the things that was encouraged was to keep it fresh, to be spontaneous. That's the magic of film often.

There's no one more willing to do something than an actor when it comes to perfecting a scene.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.

I've learned by watching films that inspired me and people who inspired me like Robert Redford and Paul Newman. I love old school acting. I love subtlety, and I also love being spontaneous, and that's really what works for me.

I walk into a scene, and I do the scene. That's my job. I don't have an objective. I have the words, and I have whoever I'm playing with.

The better the acting is, the harder it is to see what the process is.

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

Some actors are what I call more like mirror actors, which means that they do a performance at home in front of the mirror, and then they go deliver it. I'm not that type.

Acting has always been very comfortable for me, so it allows me to pay attention to other parts of the process literally while I'm acting.

I like method actors who don't focus on the glamorous side, but on realistic acting.