Campbell Scott quote: "I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that."

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

I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.
CAMPBELL SCOTT

If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
CAMPBELL SCOTT

I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I&...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

The high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up.
CAMPBELL SCOTT

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

I went to school in Wisconsin and I used to drive to see Steppenwolf in a basement.
CAMPBELL SCOTT

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

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

When I read reviews, I go right past the plot. I don't want to read anything about the story, and I ...
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

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

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

Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who a...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

on an urgent basis.
SCOTT CAMPBELL

I don't know how many teams down (16) in the state championship game would have put out their lips, ...
SCOTT CAMPBELL

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

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

I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

It still works, ... It's the most significant Packard in existance.
SCOTT CAMPBELL

I still try out for the bigger films, because they don't know me usually. But to the smaller films, ...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

I am a character actor. I'm not a presence actor. And those exist all over the place.
CAMPBELL SCOTT

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

Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist i...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.
CAMPBELL SCOTT

'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the ...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something t...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
CAMPBELL SCOTT

Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and dir...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

In the film world, and I know this from just talking to other people, that I'm known as a kind o...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

Details are the only thing that separates one movie from another.
CAMPBELL SCOTT

Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a char...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

The nightmare of a film career, or at least the challenge of one, is that you're rarely going to...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just ma...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, an...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don&...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

When you're young, you don't care about your parents and what they're doing. But then yo...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

When you produce and direct, your movies are different to you. They're not just something you ac...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

I love that I'm rarely recognized. I like it because I know I can look different from film to fi...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' B...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.
CAMPBELL SCOTT

Of course, we heard horrible rumors then we heard good rumors, ... From all the official word it was...
SCOTT CAMPBELL

Sword-arm pauses. War-heat recedes.
Sacred soul-sister silently pleads
For only peace, whi...
ADAM SCOTT CAMPBELL

I entered the fire and could have quit-
Could have turned and walked away,
Weeping each st...
ADAM SCOTT CAMPBELL

But now our fate from unmomentous things, may rise like rivers out of little springs.
CAMPBELL

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

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.
ANNE CAMPBELL

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly he...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

The news comes somewhat late, but I'm glad to hear it nevertheless.
MALCOLM CAMPBELL

Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.
MALCOLM CAMPBELL

The tires were scorching hot, in fact I burned my fingers on one.
MALCOLM CAMPBELL

I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.
NAOMI CAMPBELL

I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in mysel...
NAOMI CAMPBELL

I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
NAOMI CAMPBELL

I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.
NAOMI CAMPBELL

I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept w...
NAOMI CAMPBELL

I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my mo...
NAOMI CAMPBELL

I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, ...
NAOMI CAMPBELL

I don't worry about a number. I'm fine with aging.
NAOMI CAMPBELL

I feel very responsible for young models of colour. They come to me and tell me they're not gett...
NAOMI CAMPBELL

Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to...
NAOMI CAMPBELL

I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it.
NAOMI CAMPBELL

Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.
NAOMI CAMPBELL

I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, '...
NAOMI CAMPBELL

Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
NAOMI CAMPBELL

What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.
NAOMI CAMPBELL

The chocolate and crisps come in at times. You have to allow the little things that make you happy. ...
NAOMI CAMPBELL

I work very hard and I'm worth every cent.
NAOMI CAMPBELL

Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.
NAOMI CAMPBELL

It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, r...
NAOMI CAMPBELL

I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
NAOMI CAMPBELL

I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's ...
NAOMI CAMPBELL

Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls ...
NAOMI CAMPBELL

I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.
NAOMI CAMPBELL

My features are completely ethnic.
NAOMI CAMPBELL

I've never been opposed to nudity. I've been opposed to nudity for box-office draw.
NEVE CAMPBELL

There had been talk about me getting involved with the new team in Houston. I don't know if it&#...
EARL CAMPBELL

Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to ...
EARL CAMPBELL

I have a wife and two boys. One is 18 and the other is 14. The 18-year old is getting ready for coll...
EARL CAMPBELL

I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.
EARL CAMPBELL

Coming up as a kid, I played middle linebacker and I was very bow-legged, and I wanted to be like th...
EARL CAMPBELL

After watching films of Jim Brown, I noticed that he never ran out of bounds. He always ran North an...
EARL CAMPBELL

When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm...
EARL CAMPBELL

It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit.
EARL CAMPBELL

I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
EARL CAMPBELL

Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football ha...
EARL CAMPBELL

Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James i...
EARL CAMPBELL

I learned from different guys I played with, too. The key was probably three people: The good Lord, ...
EARL CAMPBELL

There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go t...
EARL CAMPBELL

Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to resta...
EARL CAMPBELL

My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.
EARL CAMPBELL

I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was...
EARL CAMPBELL

I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.
EARL CAMPBELL

I think one game we played the Oakland Raiders and Jack Tatum and I had an accident on the one-yard ...
EARL CAMPBELL

I did some good things as a rookie.
EARL CAMPBELL

Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys...
EARL CAMPBELL

First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such gre...
EARL CAMPBELL

I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but st...
EARL CAMPBELL

I miss the guys. I don't get to see them often. We do get together in Houston now and then.
EARL CAMPBELL

By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve h...
EDDIE CAMPBELL

I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, ...
EDDIE CAMPBELL

There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here.
EDDIE CAMPBELL

I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.
EDDIE CAMPBELL

I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed the...
EDDIE CAMPBELL

They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me.
EDDIE CAMPBELL

I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
EDDIE CAMPBELL

I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It ...
EDDIE CAMPBELL

He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own t...
EDDIE CAMPBELL

We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the hor...
EDDIE CAMPBELL

It's not the last one. Five's out, six is coming out in November, that's a single chapte...
EDDIE CAMPBELL

It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with...
EDDIE CAMPBELL

They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script i...
EDDIE CAMPBELL

I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd hav...
EDDIE CAMPBELL

All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.
EDDIE CAMPBELL

You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.
EDDIE CAMPBELL

Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track, you'll know i...
EDDIE CAMPBELL

I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.
EDDIE CAMPBELL

And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
EDDIE CAMPBELL

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned him...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can ch...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique pote...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple a...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Love is a friendship set to music.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the e...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

We have been spending beyond our means, we are going to focus on the projects that we committed to i...
CAMPBELL NEWMAN

What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5...
CAMPBELL NEWMAN

The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful touri...
CAMPBELL NEWMAN

I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.
CAMPBELL NEWMAN

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.
CAMPBELL NEWMAN

It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regula...
CAMPBELL NEWMAN

The president has been more than willing to challenge the National Rifle Association, but that is li...
CAMPBELL BROWN

Every education law should be based around the question, 'Is this good for children?' And it...
CAMPBELL BROWN

I'm trying to get my head in the game, think about the questions I wanted to ask, breast milk is...
CAMPBELL BROWN

While the rest of the cable news world moved to opinion, CNN allowed me to stay true to my hard-news...
CAMPBELL BROWN

Education has not traditionally been a large concern in presidential elections, presumably because t...
CAMPBELL BROWN

As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to t...
CAMPBELL BROWN

Sometimes, in the midst of a tragedy like the Newton massacre, we witness incredible acts of valor, ...
CAMPBELL BROWN

When Wolf Blitzer wears a not-so-great tie, how much e-mail do you think he gets? My point is, for w...
CAMPBELL BROWN

Let's just start with the word 'diva.' It is obviously a sexist slight - a term that is ...
CAMPBELL BROWN

Planned Parenthood has a large target on its back.
CAMPBELL BROWN

Most of Planned Parenthood's work focuses on health care for low-income women: things like scree...
CAMPBELL BROWN

The consequences of substandard teaching go far beyond whether college or a good job is in reach. Th...
CAMPBELL BROWN

We are not yet a society free of sexism, and this will continue to be an issue for all women candida...
CAMPBELL BROWN

We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in ...
CAMPBELL BROWN

My cousin in Louisiana started a small company with a little savings, renovating houses. A single mo...
CAMPBELL BROWN

Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
CAMPBELL BROWN

I have had enough of the sexist treatment of Sarah Palin... I call upon the McCain campaign to stop ...
CAMPBELL BROWN

The protests and pain over the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown had me wondering if we can ev...
CAMPBELL BROWN

Let's be clear about what Common Core is. It spells out what students should know at the end of ...
CAMPBELL BROWN

When you have Candidate A saying the sky is blue, and Candidate B saying it's a cloudy day, I lo...
CAMPBELL BROWN

The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O'Reilly, Na...
CAMPBELL BROWN

Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red...
CAMPBELL BROWN

It comes down to what your priorities are, and if public education is about kids, then every decisio...
CAMPBELL BROWN

I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the...
ALEX CAMPBELL

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

What millions died that Caesar might be great!
THOMAS CAMPBELL

A lot of people on the team want to do this for Kenny. We'd like to win the states for him.
ALAN CAMPBELL

Before Kenny died, I think everyone thought we'd be a powerhouse, because we had everyone coming bac...
ALAN CAMPBELL

This will allow us to put the full range of OVID services online for use by Oregon wine grape grower...
ALAN CAMPBELL

I've got no problem with those who want to get tough on crime,
ALAN CAMPBELL

Homicide.
ALAN CAMPBELL

This place was filthy when we started. We've had ladies in here on their hands and knees from one en...
ALAN CAMPBELL

there is nothing like a live audience--the combined feeling of elation and being physically spent--t...
ALAN CAMPBELL

I was very candid in my book because I want people to know the truth... and that people can change f...
GLEN CAMPBELL

There is no greater honour than to serve Canadians.
KIM CAMPBELL

Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised.
KIM CAMPBELL

He has said he is going to stay for a full term and I think it is absolutely right that he does that...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

The EU is Russia's largest trading partner, and we are increasingly interdependent. It is on our int...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

If it's a fundamental principle, the length of the grass doesn't matter.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

When your lordships carefully and critically examine the evidence, they will be driven by that to co...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

It is going to need a lot of continuing work talking to the parties before we can get to the stage o...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

He found it hilarious that some of the press - the more one-eyed of the NZ media - were blaming me f...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

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