Andrew Scott Quotes

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Andrew Scott

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 21, 1976

I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring.

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I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. 'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

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I have a terrible superstition of writing things down.

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Never, ever wear three-quarter length trousers. Even in the summer.

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It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama.

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One of my favourite parts of acting is the clothes that you get to wear, because it's very important.

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I never make a note of anything; I never even write a plot down.

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I want to keep everything balanced. That's why it's important not to have too much fanfare.

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I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the Russian dialect has.

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It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.

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It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.

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I think in my job, it's quite difficult to find work on television... you don't necessarily want to get a profile for something that you don't fully believe in.

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The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.

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I do sometimes play characters that are a bit ambiguous. You've got to be brave about that sort of stuff. I like the sense of people not feeling too secure, not immediately knowing what they have in front of them.

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Audiences like to be challenged and to be actively involved and try to guess an outcome.

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I am a private person; I think that's important if you're an actor. But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

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I don't like it when people ask actors to work for free - on the fringe - as if it's some kind of virtue. That annoys me - actors should be paid well.

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I'm not a big guy for research. You've got to take a risk.

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Life's too short.

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Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that.

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