Words matter. These are the best Adam Scott Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
As a seven-year-old, I had definite opinions on Ronald Reagan.
‘Black Mass’ was a really great experience.
I think that a movie of a TV show is really tricky, and I don’t know if it’s ever really been done well. Because it’s really hard if you have a 22-minute show, especially something like ‘Party Down,’ where it’s all contained at the party.
I think podcasting is here to stay.
I immediately understood the general air of humiliation that comes with trying to do something as ridiculous as be an actor in Hollywood. It’s just kind of an embarrassing endeavor.
I love working with friends; it’s my favorite thing to do. I’ve found over the years that that ends up being the best way to spend my time.
I love the people I work with and the stuff I’ve found and that’s found me.
If I look at it and feel there is someone who can do it better, I won’t do it. Whether it’s ‘Party Down’ or ‘Piranha 3-D,’ I’m going to bring something to it to make it special.
I have a recurring dream where I’m on the run for a horrible thing I did years and years ago. Like, in the dream… because the thing I did was so long ago that it’s just a faint memory in my dream, so I’m sort of remembering it as I’m on the run from the police. And I’m totally guilty of it.
I remember getting out of acting school and friends of mine talking about, like, ‘You know, I don’t think I’m gonna do TV.’ Like, people putting on these airs of being picky. And I was never a snob about it.
I think ‘Eastbound & Down’ is one of the great television shows, ever.
I’m just excited to watch my kids grow up.
Chasing kids on the beach and sleeping is the closest I come to exercising while in Hawaii.
The divorce in my family was really amicable. There were no fireworks. It was all sort of behind the scenes, if you will. None of us kids ever saw any argument.
I think a lot of us are a lot more cautious with marriage because of what we saw happening with our parents. I see a lot more healthy marriages in my generation than they probably saw in theirs.
I never was a caterer, but I did deliver pizzas.
In television, you make an hour-long episode every seven days; we used to make ‘Party Down’ in four days per episode. It’s quick and with independent movies is the same: you gotta keep moving. It’s very similar.
I came to Los Angeles to be an actor, which is, at best, a gamble.
I can’t imagine my wife and I ever splitting up. I can’t imagine a life without her.
Being an actor is just kind of embarrassing.
Just as a fan and a consumer, I think less of actors as one thing and belonging to one genre or medium. People do all kinds of things.
There’s certainly harder things in the world and the country to do than being an actor, but it’s a particularly emotionally humiliating thing to do, that you don’t really anticipate when you choose to do it. You don’t really think that it’s going to be quite so soul-crushing at times.
If I had gotten the parts in ‘Scream’ or ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer,’ I would not have been very good in them, and I would’ve squandered whatever success I had gotten because I wasn’t ready for that sort of thing. So I feel grateful for all of the years that I have behind me trying to get traction and a career.
For years and years, I was doing extra work and guest spots and anything I could cobble together.
Like, on the ‘Parks And Rec’ set, I still feel like I’m a guest star. Being a fan of the show, it’s really surreal to be on the set and see that it’s not real, and getting to know the actors and they’re not their characters.
I worked at Johnny Rockets. For one day. I had to quit because they said that anytime a particular song comes on the jukebox, all the servers have to stop and do this special sing-along and dance, and I just knew that I wouldn’t be returning.
My parents were pretty cool about letting me listen to whatever I wanted. The only objection might have been playing music too loud.
If I’m going to be away from my family, I’d rather it be working with my friends.
You know, it looks like I have a varied resume or a varied career, that I’ve made interesting choices, when the truth of the matter is, in a way I’ve just kind of piece-mealed a career together, you know?
I prefer Los Angeles just because I live there and my family’s there. But I think New York is just kind of the center of the world.
The great thing about New York is that you don’t have to set out to do anything. Whenever I go without the kids, I walk all day and see the most interesting stuff. There’s always some kind of drama playing out.
‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ is my favorite movie, and it’s why I wanted to be an actor.
For a lot of people, divorce is an incredibly healthy move to make in your life.
Growing up, I did not have many friends with parents who were together.
It’s the worst noise in the world: me analyzing the reasons for making a podcast about U2.
As far as base humiliation goes, acting is a tough business. It’s a tough, embarrassing thing to do for a living when you’re starting out, and you better not have any ego or pride, because that will be wiped away clean by utter devastation.
My upbringing was healthy and terrific.
JanSport thinks about everything that a person in the 21st century would need, and then creates a pocket for it.
After a long day at the beach, a hamburger and fries usually does the trick.
Dr. Bronner’s is the best. My mom had Dr. Bronner’s around since I was a little kid, and I’ve used it in the shower as soap ever since.
I’ve learned, over the years, to go after the parts where I feel I can add something.
More and more, you’re seeing television shows that are better than 99% of the movies out there. I mean, you watch something like the last couple of seasons of ‘The Sopranos,’ which is some of the most sophisticated writing I’ve ever seen filmed and some of the best filmmaking I’ve ever seen – and it’s a TV show.
For me to get a lead role in a real movie is something to jump at. It’s not like I get to do that all of the time.
Amy Adams was great to work with, fun and lovely.
It’s really fun to get recognized for ‘Step Brothers.’
One line on a Tom Selleck sitcom does not a career make.
What could be said about ‘Party Down?’ So many things. It was such a good idea – a different party every week is such a slam-dunk of an idea that I couldn’t believe it had not been done yet. The creators of it are my friends.
I mean, I love action films, you know, good action films.
It’s interesting how there are a few times in your life when you get to reinvent yourself. Like the beginning of junior high or high school, and certainly when you go off to college.
I know that I am not entitled to anything, and when somebody thinks they are, that’s a step in the wrong direction.
‘Step Brothers’ itself, when I did it, I don’t know if I had any idea that it would become a defining moment in my career and life like it has, and I’m really happy that that’s the one that ended up being that for me.
I like having a duty. I’m a terrible cook, but when people come over, if I’m falling between the cracks socially, I can always run away to my job.
I guess I’m used to TV where we don’t really rehearse. You block it out, and then you just start shooting.
I grew up right in Santa Cruz, right across the bay from Monterey. I would go to Monterey all the time.
I think ‘Party Down’ found its audience primarily on Netflix and stuff like that, and primarily after it had been cancelled.
I don’t think people who are bad people think they’re bad people.
There is nothing more unpleasant than watching someone on a TV or movie set act like they are entitled to a particular kind of treatment just because they have been doing it for longer. We are all in the same boat – one job at a time.
When you blow an audition that you have a lot of importance on, it haunts you for years.
I think when you’re on a network show, it’s crazy how different it is… just being on a network show that reaches that many people. It’s not like I’m very famous, but seemingly overnight, I would get recognized more, and it was really weird.
I had a double bacon cheeseburger at Chili’s, and I lost a tooth in it. My tooth!
I just like staying at home and eating and watching movies and running around in the back yard.
Every year, you can depend on having at least a couple really exciting Nicole Kidman performances, and that’s a rare thing.
I was a chubby kid.
I used to be into the Grateful Dead, so I understand the Phish thing.
It is not like casting me in your movie is going to help you get financing.
I got really into Martin Scorsese as a teenager, so then it was kind of the whole reason I wanted to be an actor. Just like tons of young actors, I think, get freaked out by the Scorsese/DeNiro movies. I loved all his movies in the ’90s, too. Then I got a part in ‘The Aviator’ and couldn’t believe it.
Ever since having kids, napping is something that I’m prone to do and very easily could do but rarely get the chance to.
I tend to be a little too old to feel guilty about watching anything. Like, I watch ‘Survivor’ every week.
I think ‘Piranha’ won’t be in the guilty-pleasure category, because it’s gonna be – well, yeah, maybe for some people. From what I’ve seen, it has a sense of humor about itself, and it’s also really scary and really, really violent. I would call it a popcorn movie from the planet Popcorn.
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