Scott Glenn Quotes

I've done films where we don't rehearse, and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

In films you do a scene, you play around with it and unless you're doing a lot of reshooting, which no one has the luxury to do, you deal with the problem for a day and then you move on. On some level, it never allows you to go very deep into what performing is about.

When you're doing a play that's fully produced, you have the benefit of rehearsing for four or five weeks, so you really get to live in the skin of the character for much longer than when you first start doing a character on TV.

There is a horrible misconception that you can either act or not. But experience is everything.

I'm more verbal and not as private as I was as a kid. I still do a form of sense memory. It honestly depends on the job. It depends on the other people you're working with, how the other actor works.

I don't think you can be a good actor and want to please, because so much about performing and acting is surprising people.

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

Normally, if you play a part, you have the words, and you invent the personality out of your experience, your knowledge - your life, in a way.

As an actor, the experience that I have as a politician while sitting in Parliament - that helps me enrich myself as an actor. But I am an actor first.

To get on a show where you're acting day in and day out for many, many hours - 15-16 hours sometimes - it hones your endurance, your ability to memorize, your ability to follow your instincts, because you don't have time to fret about your choices afterward.

You do some acting in a room for a few minutes, hopefully get something out of it that makes you a bit better at acting, and go home. Maybe the people in the room with you liked the acting you did. Maybe they didn't! Either way, it's not the end of the world; you'll be doing this again soon.

I really love playing McKay. It's one of those roles where every day something is different.

As an actor, I'm more interested in characters the longer I have lived with them.

As an actor, I go with the flow.

I never went to drama school. It's a brilliant thing for the right type of person, but I threw myself in the deep end.

Wayne was coming out of a session as Mickey for 'Totally Minnie.' We met in the hallway. We just blended really well.

I did some musical theater and studied a little bit of acting as well.

In Malayalam, I can improvise, and acting is easy because I think in Malayalam, but for 'Velaikkaran,' I had to prepare for a role, which is a first for me.

I have always been open towards character roles.

I think acting is boring because you have to sit for a long time. And being a director I am used to running around and being busy on sets. I lack the actor software.

I typically try not to think too hard about what I'm going to do in a certain scene with a certain actor in a certain moment because I think that kind of lends its way to not being as improvisational and sort of carefree as one would hope.

The work of acting, in and of itself, is something that is infinitely enjoyable.

I'm one of those actors who finds the part in the wardrobe.

I was in several school performances, mainly Shakespeare and comedic roles. I just accidentally became an actor. I totally didn't expect this.

Even though the 'Shooter' character on TV is so close to the real-life me, I'm still playing with ways to creatively portray that character.