Scott Speedman Quotations

I also loved American Beauty. I like a lot of what's coming out now. I think films are in a better place than six months ago, and that's exciting.

There's a good group of people that get to do it, but if I'm not getting to do that in a good couple years, I will look to do some television.

There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've played a lot of guys, dudes, boys in a sense and this was a challenge for me just to play that official character.

Probably the most difficult things were my favorite parts. The make-up and the big fight sequence at the end of the movie were very difficult but really fun and challenging.

It's an interesting time that way. It's hard to meet good girls down here. It seems like they're all after something and interested in their own lives.

It was never my dream to be on a television show, but the words kind of flew out of my mouth when I read my part - it was a good part for me.

I'm pretty picky about what I want to do.

I dropped out when I was 21 or 22 because I was doing a lot of TV movies, and I wasn't really enjoying it, and I wanted to do some more training.

It's really difficult to have a challenging male-driven show, and certain networks take off because they have their own mandate about what they want to do.

I was a swimmer growing up. I was a miler - like long, long distance. So I was in the water for four or five hours a day. That's not the way you want to spend your teenage years.

Every movie is different. Sometimes with movies, there are roles you should just leave alone and relax with and keep it light. And there are other ones where you want to work with an acting coach and really delve in there.

I can't swim at the level I used to. I had to retire because of an injury to my shoulder.

I just would like to spend more time in New York City.

I don't think I would be getting any of these movies without that show, and that's a strong show, a great fan base and it's helped me out a lot. It took me out of Canada and brought me down to the states and gave me my career basically.

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto.

I think Canada, our industry is still somewhat based in America's industry.

I'd rather not make films than make bad ones.

If you don't live a normal life, how do you relate to people?

I mean, I grew up an athlete training and training and training. So I kind of have that mentality.

Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.

You've got to just go do what you do - you can't really worry about who was attached to the movie before.

I'd like to do the young cadet thing again for sure, but that's why I wanted to do this, to see if I could do it. I took the scenes out of the script and put them together and read them as one little arc, story and that seemed to work.

I have a slight fear of sharks for some reason.I have a slight fear of sharks for some reason.

I went to the University of Toronto for a year, and I'm always trying to get across what university is really like.

And when I have lived elsewhere, every two weeks I have to fly back to LA. Even New York directors go there to audition. So I have to be there to a degree.

Duets is about six people, so it's like three different movies - three different duets. I was on the set 18 days, spread out over three and a half or four weeks.

I'm not a guy that loves a lot of rehearsal, but it depends. It depends what it would be.

I bought a house in LA, hanging out there and spending a lot of time in Toronto, but not much.

I had dropped out of theater school after six months and was just staying on my mom's couch at home in Toronto.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing.

Obviously, in this day and age, with the TV shows, there are some really interesting ones. I'm not that interested in going and doing a network show, but like everybody else, trying to find something good.

I mean, I love California, but LA to me is still a strange place.

Sexy is a girl who's comfortable with herself. Long legs are beautiful... and also a nice neck.

And sex is definitely part of college life.

I'm not as eager to go just work to work. I have another life outside of it, and if I'm pretty sure the movie's not going to have a life, or if it's not a director I believe in, then I probably will say no.

I can walk down the street all day and people look at me, but they don't talk to me or stop me.

And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.

I don't see the point in signing on to do something and then leaving.

And I can see he's a bit of a superstar. That's not me. But it sort of scares me in a way, but I don't think it's going to get any worse for me.