Scott Glenn Quotes

I feel that once you go into rehearsal, you need to focus on the show in the room.

I think one of the mistakes actors make is we're so focused on what we're going to say.

An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting.

Meisner technique was different than anything I'd ever experienced. It's a really great way to be accountable to your craft and to yourself, but also it takes that kind of focus and dedication to learn anything.

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

Miss Fontanne and I rehearse all the time. Even after we leave the theater, we rehearse. We sleep in the same bed. We have a script on our hands when we go to bed. You can't come and tell us to stop rehearsing after eight hours.

All the things you can do to prepare for a role that free you, in the moment, are great. You have this muscle memory for things. You don't have to act it as much, once you've done it enough.

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.

I've had plenty of crappy jobs, but the only job I've ever really dedicated myself to has been acting. It's my life.

If I have an audition, I go to the audition in character. I'm in character when I walk in the room. I mean, I'm still sweet to everyone, but I'm very much the character.

Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte; I didn't know what I was doing, and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.

I love acting, and it was really important to me to give it a real shot.

Whenever I am acting, it's everything, you know. If I'm researching a role, I'm completely consumed in that and, between action and cut, I live in this suspended time.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

Part of an actor's job is to draw up a back story.

Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera.

I suppose I could be accused of taking acting too seriously and losing the fun of it. I do take my work very seriously; I take on the responsibility of it.

I'm very serious about acting.

A lot of actors are perfectionists, besides merely being egotists.

If you're getting ready to do a really emotional scene then, right before it, you're probably not going to be outside playing basketball.