Dougray Scott quote: "[As Moses,] I just want to be an ordinary man. In his head and heart, he's in the wilderness. He wants to focus his life on something he believes in, and yet he's not sure he's the right person. He has to lead his people to the Promised Land and figure out what God sees as worthy in him."

Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feel...
DOUGRAY SCOTT

Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing.
DOUGRAY SCOTT

I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderf...
DOUGRAY SCOTT

When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when ...
DOUGRAY SCOTT

When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks.
DOUGRAY SCOTT

It's nice to be asked to do good projects.
DOUGRAY SCOTT

What was the reason for invading Iraq' Was it a humanitarian crusade or an economic one' I w...
DOUGRAY SCOTT

There was just no other way to play it. There was no question this was a man who was tortured and tr...
DOUGRAY SCOTT

It was very hot, very rugged and quite inaccessible. But I had a fantastic time. The work is the thi...
DOUGRAY SCOTT

Right from the beginning of time there were these very very attractive bad guys. It's a life that mo...
DOUGRAY SCOTT

You could tell immediately there was a great history to this guy, as revealed in the pilot. He has a...
DOUGRAY SCOTT

It is s a massive amount of people, half the population of Scotland. Can you imagine a tragedy on th...
DOUGRAY SCOTT

Wonderful, quite idyllic, actually. It's very green, beautiful. Lots of golf courses, which was grea...
DOUGRAY SCOTT

You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate ...
DOUGRAY SCOTT

In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as poss...
DOUGRAY SCOTT

Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody...
DOUGRAY SCOTT

With the situation now, people might be intrigued to see how a country coped with war all those year...
DOUGRAY SCOTT

People go to see a film because it's a great story and it's visually exciting to watch.
DOUGRAY SCOTT

The success of the film is down to the crew.
DOUGRAY SCOTT

You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are ...
DOUGRAY SCOTT

You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you ...
DOUGRAY SCOTT

Fairfax was incredibly important to the shaping of the country.
DOUGRAY SCOTT

I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made rig...
DOUGRAY SCOTT

It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.
DOUGRAY SCOTT

It quite often happens that they attach a name to a project and it doesn't get all the financing...
DOUGRAY SCOTT

I don't like acting things; I like feeling things.
DOUGRAY SCOTT

You couldn't take football away from me, you couldn't take acting away from me.
DOUGRAY SCOTT

Sometimes people say to you that you should try to be in a bigger film, but it's the way it pans...
DOUGRAY SCOTT

I try and do films I know I'm going to enjoy watching as well as being in.
DOUGRAY SCOTT

The point is to be involved in the moment.
DOUGRAY SCOTT

How is sky the limit?...When it can't be touched
SCOTT

If someone accuses me of not being born here, I can go -within 10 minutes - to my filing cabinet and...
LUKE SCOTT

When I was just starting out in the business, I used to love to watch Lorne Greene doing the Macy...
WILLARD SCOTT

You must give to get, You must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest.
SCOTT REED

Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work ...
BOBBY SCOTT

The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.
SCOTT HAMILTON

I've always been fascinated with radio and broadcasting. I did fake radio shows as a kid, where ...
SCOTT AUKERMAN

My father taught me not to overthink things, that nothing will ever be perfect, so just keep moving ...
SCOTT EASTWOOD

With albums like 'Rodeo,' 'Days Before Rodeo' and 'Owl Pharaoh,' I was reall...
TRAVIS SCOTT

You can't buy swag.
TRAVIS SCOTT

I know what my identity is.
TRAVIS SCOTT

I've been really trying to put people onto, like, my sound since I was, like, 17, 16.
TRAVIS SCOTT

I was born in Houston, Texas. I grew up in Houston, by Missouri City. It's, like, a suburb in th...
TRAVIS SCOTT

I was a smart kid. I went to private school in middle school and got kicked out.
TRAVIS SCOTT

Me being in Houston, I wanted to leave there because it was only known for one thing. That's why...
TRAVIS SCOTT

I feel like everyone just gets constricted by their parents or, just, life.
TRAVIS SCOTT

You can't buy being a rock star.
TRAVIS SCOTT

Every time I go into the studio, it's some next level, man.
TRAVIS SCOTT

I'm not a gangsta.
TRAVIS SCOTT

'Days Before Rodeo' is just the journey of me finding out who I am.
TRAVIS SCOTT

A nerd can call another nerd a nerd.
TRAVIS SCOTT

I feel like everything needs to be stylised; that's always been my mindset.
TRAVIS SCOTT

Money is something that keeps you alive and healthy and just keeps you focused. It's the drive. ...
TRAVIS SCOTT

I'm La Flame at all times. That, at times, can be bad, at times can be good.
TRAVIS SCOTT

My whole story is straight mythical. It's tangible, but it's also what life could be.
TRAVIS SCOTT

I'm a magician, like David Blaine. I could never fall.
TRAVIS SCOTT

There are people who take fashion at different levels, but personally, I'm just a kid with it.
TRAVIS SCOTT

Yes, money is important. But it's all about the creative process.
TRAVIS SCOTT

I had always been a fatalist about my career. What was to be was to be.
RANDOLPH SCOTT

Frankly, I don't like publicity.
RANDOLPH SCOTT

Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy. Westerns always make money. And th...
RANDOLPH SCOTT

My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of...
RANDOLPH SCOTT

I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.
RANDOLPH SCOTT

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual he...
WALTER SCOTT

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out o...
WALTER SCOTT

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
WALTER SCOTT

Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues he...
WALTER SCOTT

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
WALTER SCOTT

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
WALTER SCOTT

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
WALTER SCOTT

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...
WALTER SCOTT

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and ...
WALTER SCOTT

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
WALTER SCOTT

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
WALTER SCOTT

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
WALTER SCOTT

What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
WALTER SCOTT

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some kno...
WALTER SCOTT

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
WALTER SCOTT

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
WALTER SCOTT

Look back, and smile on perils past.
WALTER SCOTT

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary wh...
WALTER SCOTT

Processed pig is white trash meat. Some people call it Spam.
SCOTT WEILAND

I just think it's silly to be stingy with compliments. If you see someone and they strike you as...
JILL SCOTT

The very first film I ever saw was a pirate movie called 'The Black Swan' with Tyrone Power....
RIDLEY SCOTT

I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.
SCOTT ADAMS

You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influe...
SCOTT ADAMS

I'm predicting that we'll finally have a computer will search my e-mail automatically and de...
SCOTT ADAMS

Happiness is nothing but good health and freedom, and money is the single best way you can buy your ...
SCOTT ADAMS

You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don...
SCOTT ADAMS

I get mail; therefore I am.
SCOTT ADAMS

Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams.
SCOTT ADAMS

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of pheno...
SCOTT ADAMS

Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ...
SCOTT ADAMS

The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with...
SCOTT ADAMS

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequ...
SCOTT ADAMS

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.
SCOTT ADAMS

There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
SCOTT ADAMS

A lot of people want the crown, but they're not willing to bleed for it.
SCOTT HAZE

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.
SCOTT TUROW

I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.
L'WREN SCOTT

The McDonald's icon of the colours and the golden arch, for me, resonates as one of the most ico...
JEREMY SCOTT

For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I...
ASHLEY SCOTT

Having children showed me a whole different kind of love that I had never known. It was something th...
SCOTT WEILAND

I'm probably doing puns more than anything in my life.
SCOTT AUKERMAN

I think everyone evolves over the years, but I have always had the silhouette that I know suits me. ...
L'WREN SCOTT

For anyone who feels they are overwhelmed by their job, or maybe they take their job too seriously o...
JILL SCOTT

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.
SCOTT PELLEY

I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
L'WREN SCOTT

I am a fashion designer, so I guess that makes me an overpacker.
L'WREN SCOTT

I'm a fashion designer. I don't want to be defined as someone's girlfriend.
L'WREN SCOTT

If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it, because you'll never look good.
L'WREN SCOTT

If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it. Because it'll never look good. Any hesitati...
L'WREN SCOTT

One should always try to do the best you possibly can. I'm not in a race to the finish line - I ...
L'WREN SCOTT

I have a very big family and a lot of friends, and buying presents is one of my favorite things to d...
L'WREN SCOTT

The modern woman has a modern life, and most of us work. There's no time to change before we go ...
L'WREN SCOTT

I think a girl always needs a cardigan, and I tend to go for the sparkles. I have a minimum of 50 em...
L'WREN SCOTT

Sometimes I like to watch TV, though I never get to watch any of the shows in real time. I'm a f...
L'WREN SCOTT

Random things are luxurious to people. It's personal.
L'WREN SCOTT

Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette. I dress for men.
L'WREN SCOTT

You'll see the most perfect person, and you are like, 'God, she's, like, perfect.' A...
L'WREN SCOTT

I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I...
L'WREN SCOTT

It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very str...
L'WREN SCOTT

I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for th...
L'WREN SCOTT

When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smel...
L'WREN SCOTT

Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.
L'WREN SCOTT

There's lots of things you pull out lipstick for.
L'WREN SCOTT

I like a very sexy silhouette, and I like to feel like when you put something on, you zip yourself i...
L'WREN SCOTT

When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you liv...
STUART SCOTT

Weapons of mass destruction aren't pulled out of a black hat like a white rabbit at a magic show...
SCOTT RITTER

Leaving the space station was bittersweet - I had been there for a long time and looked forward to l...
SCOTT KELLY

My parents are so amazing; they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise abou...
NAOMI SCOTT

I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.
NAOMI SCOTT

I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't ...
NAOMI SCOTT

I'm my own person. You can't generalise about people.
NAOMI SCOTT

There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails.
NAOMI SCOTT

I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, ...
NAOMI SCOTT

No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
NAOMI SCOTT

I want to pursue music in the future, but I'm taking it a step at a time and making sure I'm...
NAOMI SCOTT

I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't ...
NAOMI SCOTT

I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they'r...
NAOMI SCOTT

I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, ...
NAOMI SCOTT

All of us, although we may have a label attached to us, that's not who we are.
NAOMI SCOTT

There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.
NAOMI SCOTT

Within a few weeks of coming back from filming 'Lemonade Mouth,' I got these scripts, and &#...
NAOMI SCOTT

I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't ...
NAOMI SCOTT

I'm a poor artist. Through brute force, I brought myself up to mediocre. I've never taken a ...
SCOTT ADAMS

I just remember Bruce Lee blowing my mind on the screen, and I thought to myself, 'That's wh...
SCOTT ADKINS

People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their c...
ANDREW SCOTT

I want a certificate that allows me to make as big a box office as possible.
RIDLEY SCOTT

As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the Whit...
SCOTT MCCLELLAN

Now things have changed for the better. Our reforms end seniority and tenure so we can hire and fire...
SCOTT WALKER

The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the...
SCOTT WALKER

We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a repor...
SCOTT PELLEY

I must say, I've been in the studio with Jay Z, dog... I thought the freestyle thing was a myth....
TRAVIS SCOTT

I look around and see so much fear, people getting more and more comfortable with their hate, more a...
SCOTT STABILE

The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of alway...
SCOTT ANDERSON

Breathe deeply, as if each breath might be your last. That way, the one time you
SCOTT SORRELL

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thin...
HAZEL SCOTT

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take ...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as qui...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If on...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. Yo...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's n...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

The fact is, it's hard to release movies.
CAMPBELL SCOTT

I only made two studio movies, that was a long time ago and obviously I removed myself. I think some...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

I'm not a big one for lots of genitals flapping in the films.
CAMPBELL SCOTT

The fact is that you're never gonna believe any of the reviews, because the movie is to you what...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for th...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acti...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to w...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

Everybody loves a villain - let's face it.
CAMPBELL SCOTT

Television and cable have become the new independent films, in a sense, for writers and actors to gr...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.
CAMPBELL SCOTT

Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the pract...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

Think of the difference between a team sport and one that you do by yourself. Like it or not, if you...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life ...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the ca...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funn...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

The important aspect as we look at this budget, and as we look at previous budgets, is the budget sy...
SCOTT MCCALLUM

As soon as you're at the higher levels of budgeting, you've got to get the film made, and th...
RIDLEY SCOTT

Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with...
SCOTT COOK

I have, since the age of about 2, been a twitchy bundle of phobias, fears, and neuroses. And I have,...
SCOTT STOSSEL

I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.
SCOTT HAMILTON

When I have a girlfriend, I feel caged in, I don't know why.
SCOTT BAIO

Many nights, I would begin the evening fueled by caffeine and nicotine, which I needed to propel me ...
SCOTT STOSSEL

There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden C...
JILL SCOTT

At the core, coaching authenticity is complicated - some might say impossible. Telling someone to be...
SCOTT WEISS

I support Donald Trump because I believe he's a businessperson that's going to get the econo...
RICK SCOTT

I'd like to do the young cadet thing again for sure, but that's why I wanted to do this, to ...
SCOTT SPEEDMAN

It's just not possible to be a real partner if you aren't materially participating. I believ...
SCOTT WEISS

I like to read Octavia E. Butler's 'Wild Seed' over and over again. And J. California Co...
JILL SCOTT

I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of br...
SCOTT THOMPSON

I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better busine...
RICK SCOTT

As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was ...
TIM SCOTT

I think 'Party Down' found its audience primarily on Netflix and stuff like that, and primar...
ADAM SCOTT

The first year of the Bush administration we used up all of the surplus and ended up just with the S...
BOBBY SCOTT

I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandm...
JILL SCOTT

[As Moses,] I just want to be an ordinary man. In his head and heart, he's in the wilderness. He wants to focus his life on something he believes in, and yet he's not sure he's the right person. He has to lead his people to the Promised Land and figure out what God sees as worthy in him.

Dougray Scott

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