Campbell Scott Quotes

To start, I wasn't really interested in acting at all, and I didn't make much impact. The first play I was in was on for five nights and I didn't show up for two of them and nobody noticed. But I stayed because that's where my friends were, and after a while I found myself wanting to inhabit other people's worlds and lives.

I have no interest in watching myself act.

With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.

Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.

On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.

I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.

I don't know why every actor doesn't do more plays.

Frankly, acting doesn't scare me because I really enjoy it.

The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself.

I find acting slightly nerve racking, but I like the challenge.

At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.

I had always heard that theatre is for 'serious' actors but after actually having rehearsed day in and day out, I realize how challenging it is.

It is important for an actor to learn how to face a live audience.

Theatre is for you if you truly want to act and test yourself. There is no room for error as you are performing in front of a live audience.

I enjoyed acting and marveled that one could get paid for doing it.

I need theatre for my equilibrium, because in theatre the actors don't care so much about image, about celebrity - you are more independent. There is not the narcissism, maybe, that you find in cinema.

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

As much as I can act, I don't have anything in me that yearns to be an actor - that sense of needing to be onstage, in costume, in character; that is utterly not interesting to me.

You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.

My progression into acting was pretty slow. I was constantly performing in different kinds of small shows. One year I would be in a magic show, the next year in a circus show, then a small play, and then a dance show.

I don't like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don't mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I'm open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.

I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.

The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before.

The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.