Scott Cohen
Scott Cohen
Scott E. Cohenis an American actor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth19 December 1961
CityBronx, NY
CountryUnited States of America
teacher kids talking
I love talking to all the kids, and have enjoyed the enthusiasm and response from their teachers as well.
spiritual art fun
The Life Cube Burn is cathartic, fun, exciting, and even reverent. It's a spectacular opportunity to put a sense of finality to the event. And when those thousands of written "wish-sticks" inserted into the Cube from all kinds of people combine with the art and shared messaging from the write boards in a blaze of flame and a column of smoke and ashes, it becomes a communal and very spiritual moment.
art men years
I made a conscious decision to take my life and career in a different direction. I started working on a play, and also, by attending Burning Man for several years, I was incredibly stimulated by the art there. I increasingly wanted to be a part of it, and focused on what I wanted to say as an artist.
ideas want selling
I want to be in a position where I feel comfortable selling an idea.
moving inspire understanding
There is nothing like understanding that your work has touched somebody. That is the sole purpose of acting. To be able to move and inspire. If I can do that for one person it is already changing the world and that makes me feel accomplished.
book character emotional
I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.
character play soul
There are just times when your body and your soul feed into a character and you somehow meet at the point where that character truly lives in you. It happens in plays, in TV, in films.
people feelings purpose
My feeling is that in the purest form, an actor is a service to the people. It's democratic in its purest form. That's what an actor is. If he or she isn't that, then there is no purpose in doing it. They're like priests.
thinking use roles
When I take a role I wonder how I can use it to find out who I really am. I don't think I'm so rare a person.
struggle thinking would-be
If I really knew how to do good storytelling, I would be a writer. Mystery is not a huge part of it. ... It's tension, it's relationships. I think it's a struggle.
journey discovery people
To me good storytelling is about journeys. It's about people's journeys, people's discoveries and how they deal with those discoveries; circumstances that put people in different situations.
struggle thinking artist
I think that when you do any kind of theatrical form, (you can't really do this in the theater) the task as an artist is to reach some form of catharsis yourself, and express something that allows an audience to have some form of catharsis. If there's no discovery in what you do, if there's no struggle in what you do to have that discovery, then, there's no meaning in what you do.
new-york home artist
New York is just New York. It's a hard city, it's a hard city to live in. It's a desperate city. It's filled with scam artists and people who are always looking for a way in and a way out and the majority of people have to really negotiate their way through that jungle to get to the other side; the other side being a place of tranquility and peace and home and safety.
creative energy huge
I've always been creative, with a huge amount of energy.