Dougray Scott Quotes
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I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script.
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You couldn't take football away from me, you couldn't take acting away from me.
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I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life.
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Sometimes people say to you that you should try to be in a bigger film, but it's the way it pans out.
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You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things.
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You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry.
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I don't like acting things; I like feeling things.
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In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is what's required to achieve what I want to achieve.
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With the situation now, people might be intrigued to see how a country coped with war all those years ago.
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Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing.
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I try and do films I know I'm going to enjoy watching as well as being in.
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When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks.
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The success of the film is down to the crew.
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Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed.
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Sometimes it is easier to play someone who is far away from you.
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You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies; we do.
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The point is to be involved in the moment.
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My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished.
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It's nice to be asked to do good projects.
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Fairfax was incredibly important to the shaping of the country.
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I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg.
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It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.
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I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me.
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When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when he's feeling pain; this very ordinary person who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances.