Scott Caan Quotations

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.

Good things happen when you get your priorities straight.

I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble.

I want to create a little chaos and make people's heads turn.

I knew whatever I did, it was going to be big.

Since I was a kid, he's told me to learn from his mistakes.

I was raised right. I dig who I am.

My whole body is a wreck. I've injured myself so many times with jujitsu, skateboarding, football. I guess I like to live hard.

And at the end of the day, if the movie's no good, I'll live to fight another day.

I don't want to sound pretentious, but you could hire a bunch of monkeys to be on a TV show, and if it's successful, then everything's perfect and everybody's happy.

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.

In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it.

To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.

I was a scam artist in high school for a while.

I just feel like if I do good work, then people should respect me for the work I do.

I had that thing of wanting to prove I was a tough kid.

I want to get married, but I'm always tortured in relationships.

But with writing, all you need is a pad of paper.

I want to struggle and make films. It's not a financial thing, it's more of a who-I-am thing.

I'm kind of like the goofy number-seven guy in a lot of movies.

In the end, the work shows if you're good.

Men should have rough hands and be strong.

I feel I should be doing stupid stuff, but I'm not going to.

I'm never going to get in a fight in public again.

I've got a little fight in me, but I think that's good.

Now I can't wait to write my next play.

Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative.

Sometimes I wish I didn't have somebody in my family who's in the business.

There are 6 billion people in the world. It's hard to find the one person who's right for you.

When I was 17-years-old, I was in the music business.

When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.

The left side of my brain is telling me I want to sleep with every woman in the world and the other side of my brain is telling me I met this great girl and if I let that go I'm going to regret it.

If you love acting and you've ever experienced theater, then you know that in a movie it's almost impossible to live out that experience, unless you're a Pacino or a De Niro or somebody who gets to pick their parts.

The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.

So for me, to go back to theater, that's everything.

My father tried to raise me like his father raised him.

I grew up with a lot of anger in me and I've let it out.

I dig the whole process so much, movies, plays, any theatrical activity.

I feel like I did all my dirt, so to speak, before I got a chance to get some fame.

Hollywood is sort of a small, little town, and doing things like that - like writing a play or selling a script - those are the little things people see.

Just like more of the cool riding stunts and stuff you just admire and hope that your movie has some of that stuff in it.

I think westerns today, people and young kids have a hard time getting into it.

People in Hollywood - the real deal people - they look at that stuff and respect it. They think it's worth something, worth getting involved with somebody like that.

Let me talk about how I dig my art, how I don't drive ten minutes without being creative, how I'm going to be in this business for the rest of my life, how I'm going to do things differently.

I stuck to blackjack and craps. I play by the book, so I came out on top.

Why would I even try when there are so many great plays out there to do?

We made $24 last week because our theater runs on donations.

At the end of the day, I'll take it because once my foot is in the door, I've got to show them proof.

I used to go out to clubs, and I used to like to drink and I used to like to rumble and get into trouble and stuff.

I wake up at 5 a.m. every day and go to bed early.

I wanted to get into acting, and that was the only place I've ever known.

That's my favorite thing about Texas, the barbecue.

A lot of kids come here from other towns, they want to be actors, and they get sucked into the whole Hollywood thing and having fun, then they're 27 before they settle down.

It's very rare that you get a part that at the end of the day you feel like you've really lived out, and for me going back and doing theater is like where I get to do that.

I want to focus on things that are important.

I'm glad I grew up in Los Angeles.

I include Jimmy Caan with those other actors out of respect, not because of his process, but because I think he's an amazing actor.

I never asked for any help. I never asked for a meeting.

I never thought about writing a play before this because I have a huge respect for playwrights.

If you don't go to school, you can't play sports.

I remember an umpire called one of our players out, and he clearly wasn't, so my dad chased the umpire around the field.

I haven't partied for at least two years.

If you want to hire me to play a tough guy, I'll do it.

I had been going through this thing with my girlfriend the past year and a half where we'd break up and get back together.

I just hope I can have a career as good as his.

I figured if I'm going to do something, I want to do it right.

I'd get suspended for fighting, for graffiti, for smoking pot. And I learned that it's not worth it.

I liked being in the spotlight.

I love the smell of a woman's armpit when she's not wearing deodorant.

I never planned on being a plumber.

I wake up at 5 a.m. every day and go to bed early.

I think I'd be a good pimp cuz I'd never beat my ho's.

I can't sit still for 10 minutes.

I mean, what do you do in Las Vegas? You gamble - and you go to strip clubs.