I worked as a truck driver, carpenter's assistant, doing whatever it took to keep bread on the table for the family. Scott Glenn More Quotes by Scott Glenn More Quotes From Scott Glenn The hard part about playing 'chicken' is knowing when to flinch. Scott Glenn hard chickens knowing 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. Scott Glenn adequate struggle numbers 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. Scott Glenn purple color editing In my life, all of the best things that have happened to me have almost invariably been accidents or fate. Scott Glenn fate You can't expect a man like me to be loyal to just one woman. Scott Glenn my-cowboy loyal men I'm sure one reason I became an actor is my basic unwillingness to live one life. Scott Glenn actors reason 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. Scott Glenn guy book world At my age, to still be able to do parts that are super physical, I'm lucky. I'm doing more fun stuff now than I ever have in my life. I'm just really fortunate. Scott Glenn lucky age fun They say God looks after kids and idiots, and I think actors are probably a combination of the two. Scott Glenn two kids thinking 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. Scott Glenn lasts acting giving 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. Scott Glenn smart views giving Very often, when you're playing people who love each other, or who hate each other, you manufacture those feelings. You have to do that a lot. Scott Glenn hate feelings people I'm way more comfortable around kids than I am people my own age. Scott Glenn age kids people 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. Scott Glenn differences break people 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. Scott Glenn wisconsin writing jobs That one long scene in the Leftovers I have with David Gulpilil was seven pages long. When we finished it, Mimi Leder said, "I thought you were gonna do this in bits and pieces. You just did the whole thing." And I literally couldn't remember the scene. It wasn't that I was in a trance. I said, "Just keep shooting takes until you see what you want." In 48 years of acting, which is also how long I've been married, that had never happened to me. Scott Glenn married acting long I never felt like I was on solid ground, emotionally. Scott Glenn felt What I didn't realize about television was that's true of acting, as well. You have that space of time to develop who you are, and you can use more and more of yourself. The lines between that character that I'm playing and myself become more and more blurred and, after awhile, they just disappear, altogether. Scott Glenn realizing acting character The third season of the Leftovers came along and Damon Lindelof sent me the script to Episode 3, and I called him up and thanked him for one of the greatest gifts I've been given. I had that script for almost two months, in the mountains in Idaho, before I even got on a plane and flew to Australia and went to the outback. He also told me to learn about the indigenous people in Australia and learn how to play a didgeridoo. It was just great. It was probably, in many ways, the best acting experience I've ever had. Scott Glenn mountain acting people I love the way Damon Lindelof writes. It's almost like he was channeling me and he had my voice, even though the territory that those lines cover is unpredictable, and goes from raw emotion to laugh out loud funny but always true. Scott Glenn emotion writing laughing
