Scott Glenn Quotations

I'm sure one reason I became an actor is my basic unwillingness to live one life.

Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished.

I'm not a comic book guy. I've never been to Comic-Con. I don't know anything about that. It's a whole different world.

My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left. You buy me for red and black, so I better give you really great red and black, but if I can give you purple, pink, green and brown too, I will.

I'm way more comfortable around kids than I am people my own age.

I never felt like I was on solid ground, emotionally.

They say God looks after kids and idiots, and I think actors are probably a combination of the two.

If you're going to be in a series and it has commercial breaks... People say, "Oh, there's a difference between cable and network," and my response to that is, "No, there's a difference between sponsored and not sponsored." That's the thing.

I had a job on a newspaper in Wisconsin, and I started off as most reporters did back then: writing obits and free ad giveaways.

I often give my wife Carol scripts I'm offered and want her opinion - because she's a really smart lady, and she's got nothing to do with this business, so I get the audience's point of view.

The hard part about playing 'chicken' is knowing when to flinch.

You can't expect a man like me to be loyal to just one woman.

The full extent of the problem of hunger is not obvious to most of us. We see the homeless, but there are a great number of working poor, struggling to survive, who don't have enough money to put adequate food on the table. We must find a solution to this ever-increasing problem - and quickly.