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Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to get all cut up in a movie.

~Campbell Scott

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After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.

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Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.

~Campbell Scott

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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.

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I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.

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The nightmare of a film career, or at least the challenge of one, is that you're rarely going to get the opportunity to explore character because once people see you in one thing, you know, they want to see that again.

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In the film world, and I know this from just talking to other people, that I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor, and the fact is I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

~Campbell Scott

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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.

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Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.

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I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: July 19th, 1961

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