Top 40 Scott Speedman Quotes

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.

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.

If you don’t live a normal life, how do you relate to people?

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

I love movies so much.

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.

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

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

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

Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.

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 think audiences are really thirsty for real shows about real people in any circumstances.

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

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.

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 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.

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

I bought a house in LA, hanging out there and spending a lot of time in Toronto, but not much.

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

I’d rather not make films than make bad ones.

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

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

I would love to do a big movie – a ‘Marvel’ movie.

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

I’m not that interested in going and doing a network show but, like everybody else, trying to find something good.

I’m a gross human being.

And sex is definitely part of college life.

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

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.

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

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

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

Balance has never been my strong suit.

There’s such good writing now on television and I don’t see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

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