Top 60 Quotes & Sayings by Scott Speedman
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
I spent a lot of time flailing around, not really sure what I wanted to do, in my 20s and early 30s.
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 enjoy played flawed men who are pushed to the limit, who make mistakes and then have to recover.
I get a little uptight if things aren't going the way I think they should be going.
I would love to do a big movie - a 'Marvel' movie.
I think audiences are really thirsty for real shows about real people in any circumstances.
I think Canada, our industry is still somewhat based in America's industry.
I have a tough time turning my brain off, to be honest.
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.
You've got to just go do what you do - you can't really worry about who was attached to the movie before.
I can walk down the street all day and people look at me, but they don't talk to me or stop me.
I mean, I love California, but LA to me is still a strange place.
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.
I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto.
It gets easier as you get older, settling down. That wild streak is gone.
My parents were athletes; they met at a track meet: they were runners.
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.
I don't really try to give out advice, to be honest.
There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.
'O.J.: Made in America' was one of the best things I've seen in a long time.
I'm not that interested in going and doing a network show but, like everybody else, trying to find something good.
I didn't grow up jumping in front of the class and performing, but I definitely had a hunger to be creative.
I just would like to spend more time in New York City.
I'm not a guy that loves a lot of rehearsal, but it depends.
And when I have lived elsewhere, every two weeks I have to fly back to LA. Even New York directors go there to audition. So I have to be there to a degree.
I'd rather not make films than make bad ones.
I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing.
I love Andre Braugher, and I'm a big fan of Shawn Ryan.
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.
If you don't live a normal life, how do you relate to people?
I bought a house in LA, hanging out there and spending a lot of time in Toronto, but not much.
I get a little tighter when I have to play the perfect Captain American-type of dude.
And sex is definitely part of college life.
I can't swim at the level I used to. I had to retire because of an injury to my shoulder.
I love movies so much.
Actors, I find, are generally happy to be working.
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.
I don't see the point in signing on to do something and then leaving.
And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.
It's an interesting time that way. It's hard to meet good girls down here. It seems like they're all after something and interested in their own lives.
I'm a gross human being.
Balance has never been my strong suit.
I don't have much of a personal life.
Every actor I know - any reasonable actor I know - is complicated. What you see and what they are, those are two very different things.
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.
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'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.
Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.
Honestly, I love movies so much that I don't really have a favorite type. It's all script-related. Whatever genre it is, if it's cinematic at all or has a tone and a feel that I think is gonna be exciting to put up on screen, then I'm there and I'll put everything I have into it.
I was a swimmer growing up. I was a miler - like long, long distance. So I was in the water for four or five hours a day. That's not the way you want to spend your teenage years.
Sexy is a girl who's comfortable with herself. Long legs are beautiful... and also a nice neck.
Obviously, in this day and age, with the TV shows, there are some really interesting ones. I'm not that interested in going and doing a network show, but like everybody else, trying to find something good.
I have a slight fear of sharks for some reason.I have a slight fear of sharks for some reason.
I had dropped out of theater school after six months and was just staying on my mom's couch at home in Toronto.
It's really difficult to have a challenging male-driven show, and certain networks take off because they have their own mandate about what they want to do.
I'm not as eager to go just work to work. I have another life outside of it, and if I'm pretty sure the movie's not going to have a life, or if it's not a director I believe in, then I probably will say no.
I'm not a guy that loves a lot of rehearsal, but it depends. It depends what it would be.
I mean, I grew up an athlete training and training and training. So I kind of have that mentality.
Every movie is different. Sometimes with movies, there are roles you should just leave alone and relax with and keep it light. And there are other ones where you want to work with an acting coach and really delve in there.
I went to the University of Toronto for a year, and I'm always trying to get across what university is really like.
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