Scott Speedman Quotes

And sex is definitely part of college life.

I spent a lot of time flailing around, not really sure what I wanted to do, in my 20s and early 30s.

‘O.J.: Made in America’ was one of the best things I’ve seen in a long time.

Probably the most difficult things were my favorite parts. The make-up and the big fight sequence at the end of the movie were very difficult but really fun and challenging.

You do a good job in something, and that’s your box for a minute. It’s up to you to keep reimagining that box.

Every actor I know – any reasonable actor I know – is complicated. What you see and what they are, those are two very different things.

And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.

I’d like to do the young cadet thing again for sure, but that’s why I wanted to do this, to see if I could do it. I took the scenes out of the script and put them together and read them as one little arc, story and that seemed to work.

My parents were athletes; they met at a track meet: they were runners.

I remember listening to Cube’s music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto.

I was runner that really started focusing on swimming at a very young age, and that’s kind of how I got into acting. I was at a school for gifted athletes and gifted artists, and I got injured one year and started hanging out with all the actors and dancers and all those crazy people and started getting the bug.

I get a little tighter when I have to play the perfect Captain American-type of dude.

I can’t swim at the level I used to. I had to retire because of an injury to my shoulder.

I don’t think a swimmer on film works unless you’re Australian, because for them, swimmers are like their football players, their basketball players; they’re huge stars.

I’m a gross human being.

There’s nothing worse – I don’t like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when – I mean, for me I’ve played a lot of guys, dudes, boys in a sense and this was a challenge for me just to play that official character.

Actors, I find, are generally happy to be working.

I don’t really try to give out advice, to be honest.

I don’t have much of a personal life.

I don’t see the point in signing on to do something and then leaving.

I didn’t grow up jumping in front of the class and performing, but I definitely had a hunger to be creative.

I don’t think I would be getting any of these movies without that show, and that’s a strong show, a great fan base and it’s helped me out a lot. It took me out of Canada and brought me down to the states and gave me my career basically.

I think Canada, our industry is still somewhat based in America’s industry.

I’m not a guy that loves a lot of rehearsal, but it depends.

I just would like to spend more time in New York City.

As soon as you do something successfully, you’re going to be known for that, and it’s up to you to sort of move the needle again.

Duets is about six people, so it’s like three different movies – three different duets. I was on the set 18 days, spread out over three and a half or four weeks.

Balance has never been my strong suit.

I love Andre Braugher, and I’m a big fan of Shawn Ryan.

You’ve got to just go do what you do – you can’t really worry about who was attached to the movie before.

I get a little uptight if things aren’t going the way I think they should be going.

I can walk down the street all day and people look at me, but they don’t talk to me or stop me.

I love movies so much.

I mean, I love California, but LA to me is still a strange place.

It gets easier as you get older, settling down. That wild streak is gone.