45 Quotes by Scott Glenn

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

Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished.

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.

My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left. You buy me for red and black, so I better give you really great red and black, but if I can give you purple, pink, green and brown too, I will.

I'm way more comfortable around kids than I am people my own age.

I never felt like I was on solid ground, emotionally.

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

If you're going to be in a series and it has commercial breaks... People say, "Oh, there's a difference between cable and network," and my response to that is, "No, there's a difference between sponsored and not sponsored." That's the thing.

I had a job on a newspaper in Wisconsin, and I started off as most reporters did back then: writing obits and free ad giveaways.