Campbell Scott
Campbell Scott
Campbell Scottis an American actor, director, producer, and voice artist. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Boris Kuester von Jurgens-Ratenicz on Royal Pains, Joseph Tobin on Damages, and Richard Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2, as well as numerous stage appearances...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth19 July 1961
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Campbell Scott quotes about
allow audiences bad both directors movies people
Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.
There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
couple directed
I've directed myself in a couple of things but you don't want to do it too often.
exist films home interested keeps paid television
Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.
both escaped growing mother parents until wonderful
Actually, both parents were actors. My mother was Colleen Dewhurst, who was also a wonderful actress. When you're growing up, they're just your parents. I didn't want to be an actor until I was 20, so they escaped that, or thought they did.
cameras instinct intellect quite until
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.
amount cut develop expressing shortest system time
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.
difference doubts drawbacks faced sports team
Think of the difference between a team sport and one that you do by yourself. Like it or not, if you're by yourself, you're going to be faced with a lot more of your own doubts and your own drawbacks and your own whatever.
believe gonna
The fact is that you're never gonna believe any of the reviews, because the movie is to you what it is to you. No one's ever gonna sway you from what you feel about it.
almost fact funny given known life lighter opportunity plenty side spend stage talking trying
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.
I'm not a big one for lots of genitals flapping in the films.
character exist presence
I am a character actor. I'm not a presence actor. And those exist all over the place.
dollar million move scares
Am I now going to move on to a 60 million dollar film? I wouldn't know what to do with a 60 million dollar film. It scares me.