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Scott Glenn

(1941) Film Actor United States

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Scott Glenn is a film actor from the United States, best known for Heroes from Heaven Battle Ground Earth.

Quick Facts About Scott Glenn

Born: January 26, 1941
Nationality: United States
Profession: Film Actor
Notable works: Heroes from Heaven Battle Ground Earth

About Scott Glenn

Theodore Scott Glenn is an American actor. His roles have included Bill Lester in She Came to the Valley (1979), Pfc Glenn Kelly in Nashville (1975), Wes Hightower in Urban Cowboy (1980), astronaut Alan Shepard in The Right Stuff (1983), Emmett in Silverado (1985), Captain Bart Mancuso in The Hunt for Red October (1990), Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs (1991), John Adcox in Backdraft (1991), Bill Burton in Absolute Power (1997), Roger in Training Day (2001), Ezra Kramer in The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), and Chris Chenery in Secretariat (2010).

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Scott Glenn

Rodeo riders are the last of the true chivalrous groups of people. It's a place where the competition is really pure.

Competition

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I've always been addicted to adrenaline.

Addicted

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That one long scene in the Leftovers I have with David Gulpilil was seven pages long. When we finished it, Mimi Leder…

Acting

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J.J. Abrams wanted me to do a part in Lost and we probably had three meetings, and I finally turned it down,…

Hate

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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.

Book

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'The Leftovers' is my favorite job I've ever had in my life, anywhere, ever. It is one of the greatest TV shows…

Greatest

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I got into an argument with someone because I said I think 2Pac will be regarded as a great poet. They said…

Best

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

Chickens

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

Actors

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I don't think rodeo is cruel at all. Bullriding is the only man-animal event that makes sense.

Cruel

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We were talking about television one time, and Damon Lindelof said he felt that, if Ernst Hemingway was writing for media, he…

Damon

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I used to be an open-spear fisherman, and if you're looking for fish, you're never going to see them. In an almost…

Fish

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What I didn't realize about television was that's true of acting, as well. You have that space of time to develop who…

Acting

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My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on…

Acting

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I love the way Damon Lindelof writes. It's almost like he was channeling me and he had my voice, even though the…

Damon

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

Fate

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I've never been bitten by a shark, though God knows I had to poke a lot of them in the nose.

God

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

Actors

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In terms of working out, I'm in the gym, maximum, twice a week, but for a pretty intense period of time: two…

Body

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If you're going to be in a series and it has commercial breaks... People say, "Oh, there's a difference between cable and…

Break

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The full extent of the problem of hunger is not obvious to most of us. We see the homeless, but there are…

Adequate

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The more time you spend with any character, whether it's from a comic book universe or a really naturalistic universe, the more…

Books

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I knew that acting is like anything - you learn from doing it.

Acting

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Carrying law enforcement ID connects you with those who do the same and separates you from those who don't. There's an implicit…

Law

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Very often, when you're playing people who love each other, or who hate each other, you manufacture those feelings. You have to…

Feelings

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