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Reid Scott

Profession : Actor

Birth : November 19, 1977

I've been a diehard fan of 'The Simpsons' since I was a kid.

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I always go for 'SPIN' magazine because I'm such a music buff.

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The more cerebral, slightly darker comedy stuff is where I love to live.

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Twitter's been interesting. I'm kind of a tech geek, but I've never been a Facebook or Twitter guy. Surprisingly, I've really enjoyed Twitter because I get to connect with fans.

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I actually started as a director, but then I saw Mark Ruffalo in 'You Can Count on Me,' and I thought to myself, 'I want to do that.'

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My personal style falls between casual cool and meticulous slob. I'm most comfortable in jeans, but I love fashion.

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I intend to act forever if I can.

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I'll always come back to comedy. Doing drama can feel satisfying, but day to day, it's just not as fun as laughing.

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I am very lucky that I get to go to work and laugh all day for my day job, and then go home and torture my artistic self.

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We've got to get off oil. And it's possible. It'll take a dramatic shift in the way we think and how our infrastructure works, but we as Americans have proven time and again that we can tackle change head on. Yeah, it's a challenge, but it doesn't have to be a painful one. We just have to recalibrate our thinking on the subject.

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As a layperson, I consider myself fairly well-educated in terms of politics. My family always has been really interested in politics, and various members of my family have a hand in politics in upstate New York.

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'Sound of My Voice' is an amazing film. Small, simple, yet incredibly thought provoking.

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Pilot season can be maddening. You're basically putting yourself and your talent out there to be scrutinized several times a day for months by network executives who have probably never acted in anything since their junior high school production of 'The Wiz.'

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I try not to read reviews. It's hard not to hear what the critics are saying, but as an actor, I try not to let it in and to just give the best performances I can. At the end of the day, if you're trying to please the critics, you're missing what's really important: being creative and having fun.

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I guess my favorite Web site would be theonion.com. I used to read that paper all the time in New York, and it still cracks me up. It's actually my homepage on my computer.

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I'd taken some classes at UCB in New York and again at the Magnet Theater and the PIT Theater. I definitely never advanced to where I was on a team or anything like that.

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Honestly, my biggest education regarding improv comedy actually came on the job working for 'My Boys.'

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Obviously, when I first came to the land of blond-haired, blue-eyed surfer types, I was the sardonic, sarcastic, liquor-swilling, chain-smoking, dark-haired, dark-eyed guy from New York.

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