Campbell Scott
Campbell Scott
Campbell Scottis an American actor, director, producer, and voice artist. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Boris Kuester von Jurgens-Ratenicz on Royal Pains, Joseph Tobin on Damages, and Richard Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2, as well as numerous stage appearances...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth19 July 1961
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Details are the only thing that separates one movie from another.
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The nightmare of a film career, or at least the challenge of one, is that you're rarely going to get the opportunity to explore character because once people see you in one thing, you know, they want to see that again.
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The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you - and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
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Television and cable have become the new independent films, in a sense, for writers and actors to gravitate towards. That's why I like short films, too; I love doing readings, audio books, working with young filmmakers; anything that keeps you from getting blase about yourself or in a rut.
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I love that I'm rarely recognized. I like it because I know I can look different from film to film.
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Everybody loves a villain - let's face it.
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If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more.
You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.
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Actually, both parents were actors. My mother was Colleen Dewhurst, who was also a wonderful actress. When you're growing up, they're just your parents. I didn't want to be an actor until I was 20, so they escaped that, or thought they did.
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Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.
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Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to get all cut up in a movie.
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Think of the difference between a team sport and one that you do by yourself. Like it or not, if you're by yourself, you're going to be faced with a lot more of your own doubts and your own drawbacks and your own whatever.
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I went to school in Wisconsin and I used to drive to see Steppenwolf in a basement.
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In the film world, and I know this from just talking to other people, that I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor, and the fact is I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.