Campbell Scott Quotes

Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.

In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your skills are what you turn to.

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.

There are so many actors that I meet that don't act enough. Definitely take class, definitely train - that's the most important thing you do. Build your craft. Become better.

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.

I learned so much about being an actor by being a director. More than I ever thought I would.

I think to be a good actor you need either a good experience of life or education, or both.

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

I try to be like a sponge when I'm around other actors, picking things up about the way they work and how they do things.

As an actor just learning the craft, you literally do a scene with Jimmy Gandolfini, and you walk away a better actor.

My modus operandi is to become a better actor.

The better the actor I am acting with, the better my performance gets.

I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.

Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh.

I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.

Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes.

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.

I would absolutely recommend for actors to start in the theater because it establishes a foundation in your craft that you can build off of.

I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they can bring something to it and make it really special. I can't.

Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of actors, and it can't. I've seen a lot of really good actors go into acting schools and then come out a little bit corrupted.

Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.

'Hollyoaks' is where I learnt a lot of the craft, being in front of a camera six days a week. That's certainly an experience you don't get in drama school. It invites you to be comfortable in front of the camera.

I can speak to actors in their terms. Knowing I was an actor, they relax. You can have the best shot in the world - but, at the center of it, you still need a good performance.

I'm formally trained, I don't know what classically trained really means. I've worked with Sanford Meisner. And I've worked at Circle Rep with Marshall W. Mason and Lanford Wilson and some really good people. I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.