Scott Glenn Quotes

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

In my life, all of the best things that have happened to me have almost invariably been accidents or fate.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

I'm the most computer illiterate human being that ever lived. My grandkids do everything for me, and then they say, "I won't even explain it to you, grandpa, 'cause you won't get it."

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.

Very rarely do actors, even with features, get to live with a part for that long and really dig into it.

I watched some of Lost series. And I realized that the character they wanted me to play didn't really come in for a long time. It would have just been the wrong thing for me to do.

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

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