Andrew Scott Quotes

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• But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.
• 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…
• 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…
• It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama.
• 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…
• If one story becomes too hot, then you can't forget it. As an actor, you want to remain fluid.
• Audiences like to be challenged and to be actively involved and try to guess an outcome.
• One of my favourite parts of acting is the clothes that you get to wear, because it's very important.
• Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that.
• I like clothes.
• Never, ever wear three-quarter length trousers. Even in the summer.
• The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.
• The kind of actors I admire move through different characters and genres.
• People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers.
• 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…
• I have to write in sequence and only in sequence.
• I have a terrible superstition of writing things down.
• I never make a note of anything; I never even write a plot down.

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