Top 225 Scott Quotes

People are forever knocking kicking, but it’s not easy, believe me. Ask Scott Norwood when he missed the field goal in the Super Bowl.

On a daily basis, you’re working with Steve Carell; you’re not working with Ricky Gervais. You try a line, and you can’t be writing for David Brent. You have to be writing for Michael Scott because Steve is Michael Scott.

I had this extraordinarily bizarre moment when, two Fridays ago, my missus gave birth to our second child at 11am and by the same time the following day I was sitting around a table with Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in Rabat in Morocco, rehearsing a scene we were going to shoot the next day.

I love Stuart Scott. There are a lot of people that tore down barriers that we don’t really acknowledge sometimes. He was one. I think James Brown was too. That cat was a soul brother when it wasn’t very popular to be one.

As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you’re a film fan. And then you’re like, ‘Oh my God, Ridley Scott just spoke to me!’

All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs.

I wasn’t ever advised by Scott Sullivan of anything ever being wrong.

Fox bought the rights to the book way back when, and there was this attempt by Fox to make a movie out of ‘The Hot Zone,’ and it tended tragically in a Hollywood disaster involving Robert Redford and Jodie Foster and Ridley Scott. But the rights have been sitting at Fox ever since.

Scott Coker’s been amazing to work with.

I get on well with Scott Parker.

There is nothing special about Tim Scott. I’m an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God and that makes the difference.

I first read the ‘Raj Quartet’ in the early 1970s, when Paul Scott’s decision to set his novels in the dying days of the British Raj in India seemed an eccentric choice, almost as though he did not want readers. The British were tired of their imperial past.

Rick Scott’s my friend. And I think he’s done a great job. And it’s my experiences with him that are part of the reason I’m running for Senate.

In the old days, when a star left a still-thriving hit show, they’d celebrate by killing him or her off. But ‘The Office’ dispatched Michael Scott in a crueler and more final way: they made him normal. Since we’re talking about Michael Scott, ‘normal’ might be stretching it, obviously.

Robin Vos and Scott Fitzgerald want to have good public schools, good roads and good health care for the people of Wisconsin. We just have to find a way to do it. I think we can.

Scott Frank and I are director friends. We met through the Sundance Labs and he’s advised me on my first projects – I’ve visited him on set, we’ve shared first cuts with each other, and we’re more like director pals than anything else.

It would be a tough fight for either Scott Quigg and Carl Frampton against Rigondeaux. He’s too good for his own good though and that’s why he’s been avoided.

My role models in the business were the older guys on my team when I first got there: Gray Scott, Adrian Smith, Roland Taylor. These were the guys who took me under their wing, and really schooled me in terms of what the business was about.

As the evening progressed, Scott said that he was looking forward to settling down, but that he hadn’t yet found the right person. The way he looked at me when he said that made me feel he might be wondering whether I was that person.

It’s like Scott Wolf, I never thought he looked like Tom Cruise until somebody said it and now that they’ve said it, I see it every time I look at him!

Growing up, watching the New Jersey Devils, I watched players like Ken Daneyko, Scott Stevens, Scott Niedermayer, old school players who respected the game.

I had just gotten a job on ‘Preacher’ on AMC and was in New Orleans starting work on that. My agent called and said ‘Are you sitting down?’ and I said ‘No’ and he said ‘Scott Rudin wants you to do ‘Hello, Dolly!’ and all I could say was ‘Oh my God, I’ll have to call you back.’

When I face an opponent in the cage, it doesn’t really matter who they are. Whether they’re my buddy, like Scott Jorgensen, or someone I don’t like, like Dominick Cruz, I’m going in there and realizing this guy is trying to hurt me, and that’s what I’m going to do to him. I try to keep it real basic.

President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of – Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.

I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I’ll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads.

Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

I like Jeremy Scott, and he has some really dope sneakers.

My big break occurred when I was six years old and met Scott Moir.

I grew up listening to Bob Marley, Jill Scott, Floetry, Nas, Jay-Z, Beyonce.

Getting the call from Ridley Scott made me think that sometimes you just need to go to work.

What Dred Scott’s master might lawfully do with Dred Scott, in the free state of Illinois, every other master may lawfully do with any other one, or 1,000 slaves, in Illinois, or in any other free state.

My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.

Scott Hall is a great wrestler, a better friend, but more than anything a very caring human being. Scott never passed a homeless person or someone in need without opening his wallet. This is a guy that has the first two nickels he ever made.

YI think what’s cool about ‘Scott Pilgrim’ is that it shows that there is a superhero within all of us. There’s not one ideal image of what a superhero looks like, and you don’t really see that until the end of the film.

I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn’t do it in musical terms, he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him.

A lot of people have asked me about some of the characters that appear in ‘Clockwork Prince,’ like Aloysius Starkweather and Woolsey Scott. A lot of people like Woolsey Scott, which I was really happy about because he’s very fun to write.

I’ve always been a fan of George C. Scott, who was working in movies when I was in college… films like ‘Patton’ and ‘Hospital.’ I was really impressed by him, and I had seen him onstage as well in ‘Uncle Vanya.’ He was a champ to me.

In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton’s WWII career.

I actually don’t read comic books. I did when I was a kid – I used to read a lot of ‘X-Men’ comic books. I read a couple ‘Scott Pilgrim’ this past year, and those are really good, but I don’t read in general, unfortunately.

For me, I was really struggling because I was Scott Hall in the gym and Scott Hall in the grocery store and in the ring. Until I got a gimmick, a look, and got to be a character, that’s when I started making strides. As Scott Hall, I didn’t have a gimmick, so I didn’t know what to do.

I can’t imagine myself doing something like ‘Narnia’ again. I would love to do something with Ridley Scott, you know, some action/adventure or something like that. But I’d also love to do a dramatic piece. It’s really just whatever you read and take to.

Scott Bradfield writes weird, oblique, unsettling stuff.

There were times over the years when I wanted to take a break from ‘Scott Pilgrim,’ or even just stop doing ‘Scott Pilgrim,’ when I was feeling down or whatever.

I was so focused on being serious. All the guys I enjoyed watching as a kid were in that vein – Ron Simmons, Scott Steiner, Vader.

The Petersons have not come forward in the press. Apparently they feel the media bears a large responsibility for Scott’s conviction. It may be a while before we hear anything from them.

There has been an attempt to pull in a more cable mentality to the big networks – from NBC hiring Scott Sassa from TNT, to FOX hiring Herzog from Comedy Central.

There is clearly a move among some tea-party people, not all of them, to always elect or nominate the most conservative person, and under that scenario, I don’t think Scott Brown would probably be their first choice.

And I’d watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors.

I’ve been writing a lot more folky, country type stuff. One of the reasons I wanted to write in the first place was because of Darrell Scott.

Years ago, I did a CBS audition. I was nervous. They introduced me as ‘Scott Bakoola.’ Not a good sign. I also didn’t get the show.

It’s sad when a woman writing fantasy in the United States in the 1970s has less actual feminist cred than Sir Walter Scott.

When I’m out there, I don’t play like Charmin. I like Scott Tissue. It’s a little rougher.

It is every producer’s dream to be part of a dedicated, hard-working team that produces an outstanding broadcast like the ‘CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley.’